Behind the veil of extreme event attribution

Climatic Change

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2018, Pages 367-383

  Jézéquel, Aglaé ^a   Dépoues, Vivian ^b,c,d   Guillemot, Hélène ^e   Trolliet, Mélodie ^f   Vanderlinden, Jean Paul ^d   Yiou, Pascal ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b ADEME   (France)

^c I4CE Institute for Climate Economics   (France)

^d CEARC EA 4455 University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines OVSQ   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RISK PERCEPTION;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETIES; BREAK DOWN; CASE-STUDIES; COMPLETE CLASSIFICATION; EXTREME EVENTS; RISK BASED APPROACHES; STORYLINES; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; PROBABILITY; RISK; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 85049887939     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2252-9     Document Type: Article

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