Trends and periodicity in the longest instrumental rainfall series for the area of most extreme rainfall in the world, Northeast India

Geographia Polonica

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 25-35

  Prokop, Paweł ^a   Walanus, Adam ^b  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RZESZÓW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Monsoon rainfall; Northeast India; Periodicity; Trend

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

ASIA; ASSAM; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 1542400500     PISSN: 00167282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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