Heavier summer downpours with climate change revealed by weather forecast resolution model

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 570-576

  Kendon, Elizabeth J ^a   Roberts, Nigel M ^a   Fowler, Hayley J ^b   Roberts, Malcolm J ^a   Chan, Steven C ^b   Senior, Catherine A ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RAINFALL; SIMULATION; SUMMER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84903462099     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2258     Document Type: Article

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