Erratum: Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes (Nature (2011) 470 (378-381) DOI: 10.1038/nature09763);Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

Nature

Volumn 470, Issue 7334, 2011, Pages 378-381

  Min, Seung Ki ^a   Zhang, Xuebin ^a   Zwiers, Francis W ^a,c   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER CONTENT;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79951778538     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12197     Document Type: Erratum

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