Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

Climatic Change

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 201-216

  Schär, Christoph ^a   Ban, Nikolina ^a   Fischer, Erich M ^a   Rajczak, Jan ^a   Schmidli, Jürg ^b   Frei, Christoph ^c   Giorgi, Filippo ^d   Karl, Thomas R ^e   Kendon, Elizabeth J ^f   Tank, Albert M G Klein ^g   O’Gorman, Paul A ^h   Sillmann, Jana ⁱ   Zhang, Xuebin ^j   Zwiers, Francis W ^k  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^j ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE STUDIES; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; FREQUENCY INDEX; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; TYPICAL APPLICATION; TYPICAL CLIMATES; WET-DAY FREQUENCY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THRESHOLD;

EID: 84962653815     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1669-2     Document Type: Article

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