Multiple perspectives on the attribution of the extreme European summer of 2012 to climate change

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 50, Issue 9-10, 2018, Pages 3537-3555

  Wilcox, Laura J ^a   Yiou, Pascal ^b   Hauser, Mathias ^c   Lott, Fraser C ^d   van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^e   Colfescu, Ioana ^f   Dong, Buwen ^a   Hegerl, Gabi ^f   Shaffrey, Len ^a   Sutton, Rowan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attribution; Drought; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER;

EUROPE;

EID: 85026436952     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3822-7     Document Type: Article

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