On the robustness of the estimates of centennial-scale variability in heavy precipitation from station data over Europe

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Zolina, Olga ^a   Simmer, Clemens ^a   Kapala, Alice ^a   Gulev, Sergey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CENTENNIAL SCALE VARIABILITY; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; HEAVY PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 25444463360     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023231     Document Type: Article

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