Recent increases in U.S. heavy precipitation associated with tropical cyclones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Kunkel, Kenneth E ^a,b,c,d   Easterling, David R ^b   Kristovich, David A R ^c   Gleason, Byron ^b   Stoecker, Leslie ^c   Smith, Rebecca ^c,e  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; TIME SERIES;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE STATIONS; EXTREME EVENTS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; LANDFALLING; PRECIPITATION TIME SERIES; SPATIAL AREA; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

STORMS;

EXTREME EVENT; HURRICANE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TIME SERIES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650894381     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045164     Document Type: Article

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