Temperature dependency of hourly precipitation intensities – surface versus cloud layer temperature

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-10

  Formayer, Herbert ^a   Fritz, Alexandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clausius Clapeyron; climate change; cloud layer temperature; extreme precipitation; hourly precipitation; precipitation intensity; temperature dependency

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD CONTROL;

CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON; CLOUD LAYERS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; EXTREME EVENT; PHASE TRANSITION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; WARMING;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

EID: 84959160903     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4678     Document Type: Article

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