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Attribution of extreme rainfall in Southeast China during May 2015

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 2017-03-30 v1

Abstract

Anthropogenic climate change increased the probability that a short-duration, intense rainfall event would occur in parts of southeast China. This type of event occurred in May 2015, causing serious flooding.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1703.10012,
  title  = {Attribution of extreme rainfall in Southeast China during May 2015},
  author = {Claire Burke and Peter Stott and Ying Sun and Andrew Ciavarella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10012},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures. Published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society special report on extreme events of 2015