Changes in regional climate extremes as a function of global mean temperature: An interactive plotting framework

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 3609-3634

  Wartenburger, Richard ^a   Hirschi, Martin ^a   Donat, Markus G ^b   Greve, Peter ^c   Pitman, Andy J ^b   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMIP; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 85030526382     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-3609-2017     Document Type: Article

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