Detecting change in UK extreme precipitation using results from the climateprediction.net BBC climate change experiment

Extremes

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-267

  Fowler, Hayley J ^a   Cooley, Daniel ^b   Sain, Stephan R ^c   Thurston, Milo ^d  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climateprediction.net; Detection; Extreme precipitation; Generalized extreme value; Parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951975836     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-010-0101-y     Document Type: Article

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