Attributable Human-Induced Changes in the Likelihood and Magnitude of the Observed Extreme Precipitation during Hurricane Harvey

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2017, Pages 12,457-12,464

  Risser, Mark D ^a   Wehner, Michael F ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

attribution; climate change; extreme value analysis; global historical climatology network; Hurricane Harvey

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATTRIBUTION; EXTERNAL INFLUENCES; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; GLOBAL HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK; GRANGER CAUSALITY; HOUSTON , TEXAS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HURRICANE EVENT; MAGNITUDE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85039725438     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075888     Document Type: Article

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