Recent trend in spatiotemporal variation of rainfall over India - An investigation into basin-scale rainfall fluctuations

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn , Issue 296, 2005, Pages 273-282

  Singh, Nityanand ^a   Sontakke, Neelima A ^a   Narendra Singh, H ^a   Pandey, Amit Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Basin rainfall studies; Global warming; India; Instrumental period rainfall series; Rainfall spatiotemporal variation; RS GIS in hydrometeorology

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; WATER RESOURCES;

BASIN RAINFALL STUDIES; INDIA; INSTRUMENTAL PERIOD RAINFALL SERIES; RAINFALL SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION; RS-GIS IN HYDROMETEOROLOGY;

RAIN;

HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RIVER BASIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 17444373583     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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