The future intensification of hourly precipitation extremes

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 48-52

  Prein, Andreas F ^a   Rasmussen, Roy M ^a   Ikeda, Kyoko ^a   Liu, Changhai ^a   Clark, Martyn P ^a   Holland, Greg J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FLASH FLOOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85008420091     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3168     Document Type: Article

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