On the verification and comparison of extreme rainfall indices from climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1605-1621

  Chen, Cheng Ta ^a   Knutson, Thomas ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; RAINFALL INDEX;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA INTERPRETATION; EXTREME EVENT; INTERPOLATION; RAINFALL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449142873     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1494.1     Document Type: Article

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