Anthropogenic footprint of climate change in the June 2013 northern India flood

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 797-805

  Cho, Changrae ^a   Li, Rong ^a   Wang, S Y ^a   Yoon, Jin Ho ^b   Gillies, Robert R ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate and weather interactions; CMIP5; Cold air intrusion; Extreme events; Greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing; Synoptic wave train; WRF model

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; GREENHOUSE GAS; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84957427272     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2613-2     Document Type: Article

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