Correction: Changes in regional heatwave characteristics as a function of increasing global temperature (Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12520-2);Changes in regional heatwave characteristics as a function of increasing global temperature

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Perkins Kirkpatrick, S E ^a   Gibson, P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; SEASON;

EID: 85029881580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23085-z     Document Type: Erratum

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