Climate models predict increasing temperature variability in poor countries

Science Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Bathiany, Sebastian ^a   Dakos, Vasilis ^b   Scheffer, Marten ^a   Lenton, Timothy M ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE;

CHANGING CLIMATE; EXTREME EVENTS; HEAT WAVES; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TROPICAL COUNTRIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDIA; SAHEL; SEA ICE; SEASON; SOIL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNLIGHT; TROPICS;

EID: 85047151080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar5809     Document Type: Article

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