Modelling of Indian summer monsoon rainfall using a four-parameter Kappa distribution

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1389-1398

  Parida, B P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

4 P Kappa distribution; General extreme value distribution; Indian summer monsoon rainfall; Isopluvial maps; L Moments; Normal distribution; Probability weighted moments; Quantiles; Recurrence interval

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; RAINFALL;

INDIA;

EID: 0033396639     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199910)19:12<1389::AID-JOC435>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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