Reduced spatial extent of extreme storms at higher temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 4026-4032

  Wasko, Conrad ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a   Westra, Seth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

extreme; precipitation; spatial; temperature

Indexed keywords

MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; TEMPERATURE;

EXTREME; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WARMING CLIMATE; WATER HOLDING CAPACITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

EID: 84964334081     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068509     Document Type: Article

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