Long term trends of annual and monthly precipitation in Japan

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 587-596

  Yue, Sheng ^a   Hashino, Michio ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bootstrap test; Climate change; Mann Kendall test; Precipitation trend analysis; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

REGIONAL PRECIPITATION;

WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0041859630     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb03677.x     Document Type: Article

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