Characterizing half-a-degree difference: a review of methods for identifying regional climate responses to global warming targets

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  James, Rachel ^a   Washington, Richard ^b   Schleussner, Carl Friedrich ^c,d   Rogelj, Joeri ^e,f   Conway, Declan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^d POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^f ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; TEMPERATURE;

GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; LIMITED ATTENTIONS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 85012975511     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.457     Document Type: Review

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