Projections of global changes in precipitation extremes from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4887-4892

  Toreti, Andrea ^a   Naveau, Philippe ^b   Zampieri, Matteo ^c   Schindler, Anne ^a   Scoccimarro, Enrico ^c,d   Xoplaki, Elena ^a   Dijkstra, Henk A ^e   Gualdi, Silvio ^c,d   Luterbacher, Jürg ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^c CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

climate change; extreme events; precipitation

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENT ESTIMATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EXTREME EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; INTERMODEL VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESOLUTION;

EID: 84884302892     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50940     Document Type: Article

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