Annual maximum 5-day rainfall total and maximum number of consecutive dry days over Central America and the Caribbean in the late twenty-first century projected by an atmospheric general circulation model with three different horizontal resolutions

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 155-168

  Nakaegawa, T ^a   Kitoh, A ^a   Murakami, H ^b   Kusunoki, S ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COASTAL ZONE; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84896404642     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0934-9     Document Type: Article

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