Assessing the present and future probability of Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 48, 2017, Pages 12681-12684

  Emanuel, Kerry ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Floods; Hurricanes

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FREQUENCY; FUTUROLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TEXAS;

EID: 85035217918     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1716222114     Document Type: Article

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