Rapid attribution of the August 2016 flood-inducing extreme precipitation in south Louisiana to climate change

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 897-921

  Van Der Wiel, Karin ^a,b   Kapnick, Sarah B ^b   Jan Van Oldenborgh, Geert ^c   Whan, Kirien ^c   Philip, Sjoukje ^c   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^b   Singh, Roop K ^d   Arrighi, Julie ^d   Cullen, Heidi ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre   (Netherlands)

^e Climate Central   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DISASTERS; FLOODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DESIGN FLOOD; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; NATURAL DISASTER; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; REAL TIME;

BATON ROUGE; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; LIVINGSTON PARISH; LOUISIANA; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85012918932     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-897-2017     Document Type: Article

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