11. The role of anthropogenic warming in 2015 central European heat waves

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2016, Pages S51-S56

  Sippel, Sebastian ^a   Otto, Friederike E L ^b   Flach, Milan ^a   Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; CENTRAL EUROPE; HEAT WAVES; MODEL SIMULATION; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SHORT TERM;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 85011673191     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0150.1     Document Type: Article

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