Climate change increases the probability of heavy rains in Northern England/Southern Scotland like those of storm Desmond - A real-time event attribution revisited

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Otto, Friederike E L ^a   Van Der Wiel, Karin ^b   Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^b   Philip, Sjoukje ^b   Kew, Sarah F ^b   Uhe, Peter ^a   Cullen, Heidi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c Climate Central   (United States)

Author keywords

attribution; climate change; extreme events

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN; STORMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ATTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EXTREME EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PRECIPITATION EVENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85048253699     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa9663     Document Type: Article

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