Multidimensional risk in a nonstationary climate: Joint probability of increasingly severe warm and dry conditions

Science Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Sarhadi, Ali ^a   Ausín, María Concepción ^b   Wiper, Michael P ^b   Touma, Danielle ^a   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE; CLIMATE VARIABLES; EMISSIONS MITIGATION; HISTORICAL PROBABILITIES; HUMAN INFLUENCES; JOINT PROBABILITY; MULTIPLE REGIONS; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 85057566597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau3487     Document Type: Article

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