Attribution of changes in precipitation patterns in African rainforests

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1625, 2013, Pages

  Otto, Friederike E L ^a   Jones, Richard G ^a,b   Halladay, Kate ^a,b   Allen, Myles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticipated attribution; Predictability; Probabilistic event attribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DRY SEASON; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RAINFOREST; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION;

AFRICA; AMAZONIA; CONGO BASIN;

RAIN;

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; METEOROLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; METEOROLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SEASONS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84895853552     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0299     Document Type: Article

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