Summer weather becomes more persistent in a 2 °C world

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2019, Pages 666-671

  Pfleiderer, Peter ^a,b,c   Schleussner, Carl Friedrich ^a,b,c   Kornhuber, Kai ^d,e,f   Coumou, Dim ^b,g  

^a CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85071133862     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0555-0     Document Type: Letter

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