Consistency of temperature and precipitation extremes across various global gridded in situ and reanalysis datasets

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 5019-5035

  Donat, Markus G ^a   Sillmann, Jana ^b   Wild, Simon ^c   Alexander, Lisa V ^a   Lippmann, Tanya ^a   Zwiers, Francis W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Climatology; Extreme events; Reanalysis data; Surface observations; Temperature

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; EXTREME EVENTS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REANALYSIS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CORRELATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 84903398793     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00405.1     Document Type: Article

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