Diagnosing conditional anthropogenic contributions to heavy Colorado rainfall in September 2013

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 17, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-6

  Pall, Pardeep ^a   Patricola, Christina M ^a,b   Wehner, Michael F ^a   Stone, Dáithí A ^a   Paciorek, Christopher J ^c   Collins, William D ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado; Conditional extreme event attribution; Heavy rainfall; September 2013

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEVERE WEATHER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85024929803     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2017.03.004     Document Type: Article

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