Observed increase in extreme daily rainfall in the French Mediterranean

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2019, Pages 1095-1114

  Ribes, Aurélien ^a   Thao, Soulivanh ^b   Vautard, Robert ^b   Dubuisson, Brigitte ^c   Somot, Samuel ^a   Colin, Jeanne ^a   Planton, Serge ^a   Soubeyroux, Jean Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Detection and attribution; Extreme events; Mediterranean; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GEOSTATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; THRESHOLD; TREND ANALYSIS;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 85045234988     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4179-2     Document Type: Article

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