Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a   Van Der Wiel, Karin ^a   Sebastian, Antonia ^b,c   Singh, Roop ^d   Arrighi, Julie ^d   Otto, Friederike ^e   Haustein, Karsten ^e   Li, Sihan ^e   Vecchi, Gabriel ^f   Cullen, Heidi ^g  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Rice University   (United States)

^d Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Climate Central   (United States)

Author keywords

attribution; climate change; extreme precipitation; tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; STORMS;

ATTRIBUTION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME RAINFALL; FLOOD PROTECTION; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; MOISTURE HOLDING CAPACITY; ONE-SIDED CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

FLOOD CONTROL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONDENSATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANE; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOISTURE FLUX; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RETURN PERIOD; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85038948461     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa9ef2     Document Type: Article

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