How much do precipitation extremes change in a warming climate?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Shiu, Chein Jung ^a   Liu, Shaw Chen ^a   Fu, Congbin ^b,c   Dai, Aiguo ^d   Sun, Ying ^e  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; FLOODS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 85027920915     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052762     Document Type: Article

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