Simultaneous characterization of mesoscale and convective-scale tropical rainfall extremes and their dynamical and thermodynamic modes of change

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2103-2119

  Fildier, B ^a,b   Parishani, H ^c   Collins, W D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; extreme rainfall; multiscale; superparameterization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; EXTREME RAINFALL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTISCALE; PRECIPITATION RATES; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SUPERPARAMETERIZATION;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPLACEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MAGNITUDE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 85028930026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017MS001033     Document Type: Article

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