An Analogue Approach to Identify Heavy Precipitation Events: Evaluation and Application to CMIP5 Climate Models in the United States

An analogue method is presented to detect the occurrence of heavy precipitation events without relying on modeled precipitation. The approach is based on using composites to identify distinct large-scale atmospheric conditions associated with widespread heavy precipitation events across local scales...

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Main Authors: Gao, Xiang, Xie, Pingping, Monier, Erwan, Entekhabi, Dara, Schlosser, Adam
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Global Change Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95748
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5533-6570
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8362-4761