Characterizing recent trends in U.S. heavy precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2313-2332

  Hoerling, Martin ^a   Eischeid, Jon ^a,b   Perlwitz, Judith ^a,b   Quan, Xiao Wei ^a,b   Wolter, Klaus ^a,b   Cheng, Linyin ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate change; Climate variability; Geographic location entity; North america; Physical meteorology and climatology; Trends; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; NORTH AMERICA; TRENDS; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SNOW INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962267252     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0441.1     Document Type: Article

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