Investigation of the 2013 Alberta flood from weather and climate perspectives

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 9-10, 2017, Pages 2881-2899

  Teufel, Bernardo ^a   Diro, G T ^a   Whan, K ^b,c   Milrad, S M ^d   Jeong, D I ^a   Ganji, A ^a   Huziy, O ^a   Winger, K ^a   Gyakum, J R ^e   de Elia, R ^a,f   Zwiers, F W ^b,c   Sushama, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium   (Canada)

^d EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Ouranos Consortium ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

2013 Alberta flood; Climate change; Event attribution; Hydrology; Land atmosphere; Orographic forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOOD DAMAGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NATURAL DISASTER; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SNOWMELT;

ALBERTA; CANADA; GREAT PLAINS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84976273794     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3239-8     Document Type: Article

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