Impact of Atlantic SST and high frequency atmospheric variability on the 1993 and 2008 Midwest floods: Regional climate model simulations of extreme climate events

Climatic Change

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 397-411

  Patricola, Christina M ^a   Chang, Ping ^a,b   Saravanan, R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; FLOODS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; POSITIVE RAINFALL ANOMALIES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; VERTICALLY INTEGRATED MOISTURE TRANSPORTS; WARM SEASON RAINFALL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84926278180     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0886-1     Document Type: Article

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