Areal and point precipitation intensity changes: Implications for the application of climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2829-2832

  Osborn, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; SYNOPTIC PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

PRECIPITATION; RAINFALL INTENSITY; TIME SERIES;

AREA OF INTEREST; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; MEAN INTENSITY; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL PREDICTION; POINT PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; SPATIAL SCALE;

EID: 0031277740     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02976     Document Type: Article

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