Challenges and Opportunities in Water Cycle Research: WCRP Contributions

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 515-532

  Trenberth, Kevin E ^a   Asrar, Ghassem R ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b World Climate Research Programme   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate Change; Climate extremes; GEWEX; Global water cycle; Hydrological Cycle; Precipitation; Water resources; WCRP

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH;

CLIMATE EXTREMES; GEWEX; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; WCRP;

WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84897470661     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-012-9214-y     Document Type: Article

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