Heat wave probability in the changing climate of the Southwest US

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 50, Issue 9-10, 2018, Pages 3853-3864

  Guirguis, Kristen ^a   Gershunov, Alexander ^a   Cayan, Daniel R ^a   Pierce, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CMIP; HEAT WAVE; PROBABILITY; WARMING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85029572950     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3850-3     Document Type: Article

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