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Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment: An overview of the IPCC SREX report

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Chapter 12 - Long-term climate change: Projections, commitments and irreversibility

TL;DR: The authors assesses long-term projections of climate change for the end of the 21st century and beyond, where the forced signal depends on the scenario and is typically larger than the internal variability of the climate system.
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Global warming and changes in drought

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Global flood risk under climate change

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Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 1. Model evaluation in the present climate

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the performance of state-of-the-art global climate models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) in simulating climate extremes indices defined by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI), and compare it to that in the previous model generation.
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A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

TL;DR: In this article, a new climatic drought index, the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI), is proposed, which combines multiscalar character with the capacity to include the effects of temperature variability on drought assessment.
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Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined some aspects of the hydrological cycle that are robust across the models, including the decrease in convective mass fluxes, the increase in horizontal moisture transport, the associated enhancement of the pattern of evaporation minus precipitation and its temporal variance, and decrease in the horizontal sensible heat transport in the extratropics.
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Climate change, coral bleaching and the future of the world's coral reefs

TL;DR: The results suggest that the thermal tolerances of reef-building corals are likely to be exceeded every year within the next few decades, and suggests that unrestrained warming cannot occur without the loss and degradation of coral reefs on a global scale.
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An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values

Eric P Smith
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TL;DR: In this article, an Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values is presented, along with a discussion of statistical models of extreme values and their application in statistical modeling of extreme value.
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