Changes in precipitation extremes in the Hawaiian Islands in a warming climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 4881-4900

  Chu, Pao Shin ^a   Chen, Ying Ruan ^a   Schroeder, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL PROBABILITIES; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; NON-PARAMETRIC; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE REVERSAL; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TREND ANALYSIS; UPWARD TREND; WARMING CLIMATE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DROUGHT; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EL NINO; EXTREME EVENT; LA NINA; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 77958099677     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3484.1     Document Type: Article

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