Longest instrumental regional and all-India summer monsoon rainfall series using optimum observations: Reconstruction and update

Holocene

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 315-331

  Sontakke, N A ^a   Singh, Nityanand ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

area averaging; India; optimization of raingauges; rainfall series; rainfall variations; Summer monsoon rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; MONSOON RAINFALL; RAINFALL DATA (1871-1984); RAINFALL SERIES; RAINGUAGE; RECONSTRUCTION;

INDIA;

EID: 0029659744     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369600600306     Document Type: Article

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