Complex picture for likelihood of ENSO-driven flood hazard

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Emerton, R ^a,b   Cloke, H L ^a   Stephens, E M ^a   Zsoter, E ^a,b   Woolnough, S J ^a   Pappenberger, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; LA NINA; NATURAL HAZARD; NONLINEARITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER FLOW;

PRECIPITATION; PROBABILITY; RIVER; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 85015325101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14796     Document Type: Article

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