Representation of extreme precipitation events leading to opposite climate change signals over the Congo basin

Atmosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 254-271

  Saeed, Fahad ^a   Haensler, Andreas ^a   Weber, Torsten ^a   Hagemann, Stefan ^b   Jacob, Daniela ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extreme rainfall events; Hydrological cycle; Land atmosphere coupling; MPI ESM; REMO

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER SUPPLY;

EXTREME RAINFALL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLINGS; MPI-ESM; REMO;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE;

CONGO BASIN;

EID: 84887617977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos4030254     Document Type: Article

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