Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Events in the United States: An Uncertainty Analysis

Extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves, droughts and severe precipitation events, have substantial impacts on ecosystems and the economy. However, future climate simulations display large uncertainty in mean changes. As a result, the uncertainty in future changes of extreme events, e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Monier, Erwan, Gao, Xiang
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Joint Program 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79081