Greater increases in temperature extremes in low versus high income countries

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Herold, Nicholas ^a   Alexander, Lisa ^a   Green, Donna ^a   Donat, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate extremes; climate inequity; climate policy

Indexed keywords

GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE EXTREMES; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE INEQUITY; CLIMATE POLICY; LOW INCOME COUNTRIES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; MITIGATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 85015100566     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5c43     Document Type: Article

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