Regional climate model projections of rainfall from U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 3365-3379

  Wright, Daniel B ^a,b   Knutson, Thomas R ^c   Smith, James A ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate impacts; Climate modeling; Dynamical downscaling; Extreme rainfall; Floods; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; FLOOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947489981     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2544-y     Document Type: Article

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