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Learning from the 2018 heatwave in the context of climate change: are high-temperature extremes important for adaptation in Scotland?
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To understand whether high temperatures and temperature extremes are important for climate change adaptation in Scotland, we place the 2018 heatwave in the context of past, present, and future climate, and provide a rapid but comprehensive impact analysis. The observed hottest day, 5-day, and 30-day period of 2018 and the 5-day period with the warmest nights had return periods of 5-15 years for 1950-2018. The warmest night and the maximum 30-day average nighttime temperature were more unusual...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Environmental Research Letters Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- 034051
- Publication date:
- 2020-01-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-01-09
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- EISSN:
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1748-9326
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- English
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- pubs:1082485
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1082485
- Deposit date:
- 2020-01-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Undorf, S et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2019 The Author(s). Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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