Urban precipitation extremes: How reliable are regional climate models?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Mishra, Vimal ^a   Dominguez, Francina ^b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NORTH AMERICAN; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RETURN PERIODS; STORMWATERS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN PRECIPITATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RETURN PERIOD; STORMWATER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; URBAN CLIMATE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856828169     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050658     Document Type: Article

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