Does storm duration modulate the extreme precipitation-temperature scaling relationship?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8783-8790

  Wasko, Conrad ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a   Johnson, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

absolute humidity; Clausius Clapeyron; extreme rainfall; storm duration; temperature scaling

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS;

ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY; CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME RAINFALL; HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIPS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE SCALING;

STORMS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTREME EVENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL REGION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84946606749     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066274     Document Type: Article

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