Intensity, duration, and frequency of precipitation extremes under 21st-century warming scenarios

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Kao, Shih Chieh ^a   Ganguly, Auroop R ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULICS; SHORE PROTECTION;

CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON RELATIONSHIP; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SETS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REANALYSIS; RESEARCH NEEDS; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS; UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 80052308487     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015529     Document Type: Article

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