Increases in tropical rainfall driven by changes in frequency of organized deep convection

Nature

Volumn 519, Issue 7544, 2015, Pages 451-454

  Tan, Jackson ^a,d   Jakob, Christian ^a   Rossow, William B ^b   Tselioudis, George ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CORRELATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; WETTING;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE; WATER CYCLE;

ATMOSPHERE; CONVECTION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER CYCLE;

EID: 84925725823     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14339     Document Type: Article

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