Association between trends in daily rainfall percentiles and the global mean temperature

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 10,802-10,810

  Benestad, R E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

attribution; global warming; percentiles; precipitation; trend

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATTRIBUTION; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCENTILES; STATISTICAL TREND ANALYSIS; TREND;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84887156266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50814     Document Type: Article

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