Atmospheric warming and the amplification of precipitation extremes

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5895, 2008, Pages 1481-1484

  Allan, Richard P ^a   Soden, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WARMING;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 51749092642     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160787     Document Type: Article

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31. Thanks to the World Climate Research Programme for enabling the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison model archive (www-pcmdi.llnl.gov). R.A. was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council grants NE/C51785X/1 and the National Centre for Earth Observation. B.S. was supported by grants from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Office and NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study. Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) data were extracted from www.ncdc.noaa.gov; SSM/I data were provided by Remote Sensing Systems. Comments by K. Hodges and two anonymous reviewers helped to improve the manuscript.