Attribution of Weather and Climate Events

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 42, Issue , 2017, Pages 627-646

  Otto, Friederike E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extreme weather; Probabilistic event attribution; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATE SCIENCE; EXTREME WEATHER; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; MODEL EVALUATION; PROBABILISTIC EVENT ATTRIBUTION; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85031752883     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-060847     Document Type: Review

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