Climate extremes in Europe at 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming

AD King, DJ Karoly - Environmental Research Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
There is an international effort to attempt to limit global warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial
levels, however, there is a lack of quantitative analysis on the benefits of holding global …

The European climate under a 2 C global warming

R Vautard, A Gobiet, S Sobolowski… - Environmental …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
A global warming of 2 C relative to pre-industrial climate has been considered as a
threshold which society should endeavor to remain below, in order to limit the dangerous …

Human contribution to rapidly increasing frequency of very warm Northern Hemisphere summers

GS Jones, PA Stott, N Christidis - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The European summer of 2003 was exceptionally warm, and there is evidence that human
influence has at least doubled the risk of such a hot summer. It is possible that by the 2040s …

Will half a degree make a difference? Robust projections of indices of mean and extreme climate in Europe under 1.5 C, 2 C, and 3 C global warming

A Dosio, EM Fischer - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Based on high‐resolution models, we investigate the change in climate extremes and
impact‐relevant indicators over Europe under different levels of global warming. We …

Modelling daily temperature extremes: recent climate and future changes over Europe

E Kjellström, L Bärring, D Jacob, R Jones, G Lenderink… - Climatic Change, 2007 - Springer
Probability distributions of daily maximum and minimum temperatures in a suite of ten RCMs
are investigated for (1) biases compared to observations in the present day climate and (2) …

Internal variability in European summer temperatures at 1.5 C and 2 C of global warming

L Suarez-Gutierrez, C Li, WA Müller… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the 100-member Grand Ensemble with the climate model MPI-ESM to evaluate the
controllability of mean and extreme European summer temperatures with the global mean …

Australian climate extremes at 1.5 C and 2 C of global warming

AD King, DJ Karoly, BJ Henley - Nature Climate Change, 2017 - nature.com
To avoid more severe impacts from climate change, there is international agreement to strive
to limit warming to below 1.5° C. However, there is a lack of literature assessing climate …

The timing of anthropogenic emergence in simulated climate extremes

AD King, MG Donat, EM Fischer… - Environmental …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Determining the time of emergence of climates altered from their natural state by
anthropogenic influences can help inform the development of adaptation and mitigation …

Greater increases in temperature extremes in low versus high income countries

N Herold, L Alexander, D Green… - Environmental Research …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
It is commonly expected that the world's lowest income countries will face some of the worst
impacts of global warming, despite contributing the least to greenhouse gas emissions …

Climate impacts in Europe under+ 1.5 C global warming

D Jacob, L Kotova, C Teichmann… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change aims not only at avoiding+ 2° C warming (and even limit the temperature increase …