Climate extremes, land-climate feedbacks and land-use forcing at 1.5°C

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 376, Issue 2119, 2018, Pages

  Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a   Wartenburger, Richard ^a   Guillod, Benoit P ^a,b   Hirsch, Annette L ^a   Vogel, Martha M ^a   Brovkin, Victor ^c   Van Vuuren, Detlef P ^d,e   Schaller, Nathalie ^f   Boysen, Lena ^c   Calvin, Katherine V ^g   Doelman, Jonathan ^d   Greve, Peter ^h   Havlik, Petr ^h   Humpenöder, Florian ⁱ   Krisztin, Tamas ^h   Mitchell, Daniel ^j   Popp, Alexander ⁱ   Riahi, Keywan ^h   Rogelj, Joeri ^a,h   Schleussner, Carl Friedrich ^i,k   Sillmann, Jana ^f   Stehfest, Elke ^d   more..

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

ⁱ POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH PIK   (Germany)

^j School Geographical Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^k CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

1.5 C scenarios; Climate extremes; Climate projections; Land climate interactions; Land use changes; Regional climate change

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; GLOBAL WARMING; SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE EXTREMES; CLIMATE PROJECTION; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; LAND-USE CHANGE; PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SOCIAL CHALLENGES; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

LAND USE;

EID: 85045522520     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0450     Document Type: Article

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