Global changes in seasonal means and extremes of precipitation from daily climate model data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Russo, Simone ^a,b   Sterl, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN; TIME SERIES;

BOREAL WINTERS; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; DATA SETS; DRY REGION; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EMPIRICAL METHOD; EXTRATROPICS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; LARGE SIZES; MODEL SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION DATA; SEASONAL MEAN; SEASONAL PEAKS; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE; TIME-PERIODS; WET AND DRY; WET PERIOD; WET REGION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84856044072     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016260     Document Type: Article

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