Seasonal cycles enhance disparities between low- and high-income countries in exposure to monthly temperature emergence with future warming

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Harrington, Luke J ^a,b   Frame, David J ^b   Hawkins, Ed ^c   Joshi, Manoj ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; climate modelling; emergence; Seasonal cycles

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EMERGENCE; FUTURE CLIMATE; LOW INCOME COUNTRIES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 85036473711     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa95ae     Document Type: Article

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