Super-Clausius-Clapeyron scaling of extreme hourly convective precipitation and its relation to large-scale atmospheric conditions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 6037-6052

  Lenderink, G ^a   Barbero, R ^b   Loriaux, J M ^a,c   Fowler, H J ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Convection; Extreme events; Precipitation; Reanalysis data; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; EXTREME EVENTS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION TEMPERATURE; REANALYSIS; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DEW POINT; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WARMING;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 85022331052     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0808.1     Document Type: Article

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