Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 19, 2017, Pages 4881-4886

  Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a   Singh, Deepti ^a,b   Mankin, Justin S ^a,b,c   Horton, Daniel E ^a,d   Swain, Daniel L ^a,e   Touma, Danielle ^a   Charland, Allison ^a   Liu, Yunjie ^a   Haugen, Matz ^a   Tsiang, Michael ^a,e   Rajaratnam, Bala ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate extremes; Event attribution; Global warming

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ICE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 85019130704     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1618082114     Document Type: Article

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