Future changes in atmospheric rivers and their implications for winter flooding in Britain

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lavers, David A ^a,c   Allan, Richard P ^a,b   Villarini, Gabriele ^c   Lloyd Hughes, Benjamin ^a   Brayshaw, David J ^a,b   Wade, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Birmingham   (United Kingdom)

^c IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BELT CONVEYORS; CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN; WATER VAPOR;

EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; EXTRA-TROPICAL CYCLONES; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MODEL INTER COMPARISONS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SOCIOECONOMIC LOSS; WARM CONVEYOR BELTS;

FLOODS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLONE; FLOODING; RADIATIVE FORCING; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; RIVER FLOW; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84885677587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034010     Document Type: Article

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