On the nonlinearity of spatial scales in extreme weather attribution statements

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2018, Pages 2739-2752

  Angélil, Oliver ^a   Stone, Daíthí ^b   Perkins Kirkpatrick, Sarah ^a   Alexander, Lisa V ^a   Wehner, Michael ^b   Shiogama, Hideo ^c   Wolski, Piotr ^d   Ciavarella, Andrew ^e   Christidis, Nikolaos ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AGCMs; Attribution; C20C+; Extremes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; NONLINEARITY; WEATHER;

EID: 85020496593     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3768-9     Document Type: Article

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