Climate indices to characterize climatic changes across southern Canada

• Published in: Meteorological Applications
• Main Authors: Hussein Wazneh, M. Altaf Arain, Paulin Coulibaly
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: climate change; climate indices; CMIP5; extreme events; future climate projection; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; British Columbia; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1861; https://doaj.org/article/158c04164a60422bb7bd208e365429fa

Abstract The present study analyses the impacts of past and future climate change on extreme weather events for southern parts of Canada from 1981 to 2100. A set of precipitation and temperature‐based indices were computed using the downscaled Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) mu...