Climate extremes in Europe at 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  King, Andrew D ^a   Karoly, David J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CMIP5; extreme temperatures; heavy rainfall; Paris agreement; regional climate change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN;

CMIP5; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HEAVY RAINFALL; HISTORICAL RECORDS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CMIP; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORICAL RECORD; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE;

EID: 85036475386     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa8e2c     Document Type: Article

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