Contribution of large-scale circulation anomalies to changes in extreme precipitation frequency in the United States

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Yu, Lejiang ^a,b   Zhong, Shiyuan ^b   Pei, Lisi ^b   Bian, Xindi ^c   Heilman, Warren E ^c  

^a POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

extreme precipitation; interdecadal variability; the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO); the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; NORTH AMERICAN LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; FLOODING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION;

INTERMOUNTAIN WEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964787378     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044003     Document Type: Article

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