Abstract
This chapter summarizes the current understanding about how and why specific weather and climate extremes are expected to change in the Southwest with climate warming over the course of the current century. Summertime heat waves and wintertime cold snaps are among the extremes most directly affected by climate change as well as the ones with the greatest impacts.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States |
Subtitle of host publication | A Report Prepared for the National Climate Assessment |
Publisher | Island Press-Center for Resource Economics |
Pages | 126-147 |
Number of pages | 22 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781610914840 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781597264204 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences