Attributing historical changes in probabilities of record-breaking daily temperature and precipitation extreme events

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 225-231

  Shiogama, Hideo ^a   Imada, Yukiko ^b   Mori, Masato ^d   Mizuta, Ryo ^b   Stone, Dáithí ^e   Yoshida, Kohei ^b   Arakawa, Osamu ^f   Ikeda, Mikiko ^g   Takahashi, Chiharu ^c   Arai, Miki ^c   Ishii, Masayoshi ^b   Watanabe, Masahiro ^c   Kimoto, Masahide ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^g JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 85007564100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2016-045     Document Type: Article

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