Have precipitation extremes and annual totals been increasing in the world's dry regions over the last 60 years?

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 441-458

  Sippel, Sebastian ^a,b   Zscheischler, Jakob ^b   Heimann, Martin ^a   Lange, Holger ^c   Mahecha, Miguel D ^a,d,e   Jan Van Oldenborgh, Geert ^f   Otto, Friederike E L ^g   Reichstein, Markus ^a,d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e Michael Stifel Center Jena (MSCJ) for Data Driven and Simulation Science   (Germany)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; DATA PROCESSING METHODS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; LONG TERM OBSERVATIONS; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; STATISTICAL ARTIFACTS;

DATA HANDLING;

ARID REGION; ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; EXTREME EVENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEMIARID REGION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 85010788203     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-441-2017     Document Type: Article

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