Assessing future climatic changes of rainfall extremes at small spatio-temporal scales

Climatic Change

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 783-797

  Gregersen, Ida Bülow ^a   Sørup, Hjalte Jomo Danielsen ^a,b   Madsen, Henrik ^c   Rosbjerg, Dan ^a   Mikkelsen, Peter Steen ^a   Arnbjerg Nielsen, Karsten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c DHI   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; CONVECTIVE STORMS; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; DOWNSCALING METHODS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STORM; URBAN DESIGN;

EID: 84878348697     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0669-0     Document Type: Article

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