Changes in the Southwest Monsoon mean daily rainfall intensity in Sri Lanka: Relationship to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-14

  Ranatunge, E ^a,b   Malmgren, B A ^c   Hayashi, Y ^a   Mikami, T ^b   Morishima, W ^d   Yokozawa, M ^a   Nishimori, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

El Ni o La Ni a; Mean rainfall intensity; Principal components analysis; Southern Oscillation Index; Southwest Monsoon; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

SRI LANKA;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0043206186     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00383-3     Document Type: Article

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