Validation of a rapid attribution of the May/June 2016 flood-inducing precipitation in France to climate change

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 1881-1898

  Philip, Sjoukje ^a   Kew, Sarah F ^a   van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a   Aalbers, Emma ^a   Vautard, Robert ^b   Otto, Friederike ^c   Haustein, Karsten ^c   Habets, Florence ^d   Singh, Roop ^e  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REAL TIME;

FRANCE; LOIRE BASIN; SEINE BASIN;

EID: 85058133394     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0074.1     Document Type: Article

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