Stationarity of monthly rainfall series since the middle of the XIXth century. Application to the case of Peninsular Spain

Natural Hazards

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 613-622

  Llasat, María Carmen ^a   Quintas, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Estudios y Experimentacion de Obras Publicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Homogeneity; Precipitation; Regionalization; Spain; Temporal analysis; Trends

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENEITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 2542478362     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NHAZ.0000024894.66869.46     Document Type: Article

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