Projected changes in characteristics of precipitation spatial structures over North America

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 596-612

  Guinard, Karine ^a   Mailhot, Alain ^a   Caya, Daniel ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b Consortium Ouranos ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Climatic regions; Extreme precipitation; Object based method; Precipitation field; Radar; Regional climate model; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR;

CLIMATIC REGIONS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; OBJECT-BASED METHODS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925271123     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4006     Document Type: Article

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