Spatial and temporal analysis of annual rainfall variations in Turkey

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1057-1076

  Türkeş, Murat ^a  

^a Department of Research ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cramer's test; Normalized rainfall; Rainfall regime regions; Serial correlation and trend tests; Turkey; Variance analysis

Indexed keywords

RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

TURKEY;

EID: 0030434591     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199609)16:9<1057::AID-JOC75>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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