Early benefits of mitigation in risk of regional climate extremes

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 326-330

  Ciavarella, Andrew ^a   Stott, Peter ^a,b   Lowe, Jason ^a,c  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; EXTREME EVENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; MITIGATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 85018777292     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3259     Document Type: Article

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