Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1097-1115

  Hegerl, Gabriele C ^a   Black, Emily ^b   Allan, Richard P ^b   Ingram, William J ^c,d   Polson, Debbie ^a   Trenberth, Kevin E ^e   Chadwick, Robin S ^c   Arkin, Phillip A ^f   Sarojini, Beena Balan ^b   Becker, Andreas ^g   Dai, Aiguo ^e,h   Durack, Paul J ^i,j   Easterling, David ^k   Fowler, Hayley J ^l   Kendon, Elizabeth J ^c   Huffman, George J ^m   Liu, Chunlei ^b   Marsh, Robert ⁿ   New, Mark ^o   Osborn, Timothy J ^p   Skliris, Nikolaos ⁿ   Stott, Peter A ^c   Vidale, Pier Luigi ^b   Wijffels, Susan E ^j   Wilcox, Laura J ^b   Willett, Kate M ^c   Zhang, Xuebin ^q   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^h STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

ⁱ LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j CSIRO   (Australia)

^k NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^l NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^m NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^p UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^q ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FUNDING REDUCTIONS; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LONG TERM STABILITY; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; RELATED VARIABLES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84938917467     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00212.1     Document Type: Review

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