Implications of changes in seasonal and annual extreme rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Fowler, H J ^a   Kilsby, C G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extremes; Flooding; Rainfall; Seasonality; UK

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FLOODS; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; CLIMATE MODELS; OIL WELL FLOODING;

SEASONALITY ASPECTS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; CLIMATIC CHANGES; EXTREME RAINFALL; EXTREMES; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SOCIAL IMPLICATION;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0141514675     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017327     Document Type: Article

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