Statistical assessment of trends and oscillations in rainfall dynamics: Analysis of long daily Italian series

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1-4 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 188-202

  Cislaghi, Matteo ^a   De Michele, C ^a   Ghezzi, A ^a   Rosso, R ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Long time series; Mann Kendall test; Montecarlo simulation; Non stationarity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVOLUTION OF PRECIPITATION; MANN-KENDALL TEST; MONOTONIC TREND; RAINFALL DYNAMICS; RAINFALL PARTITIONING;

METEOROLOGY;

HISTORICAL RECORD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 27144441745     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.12.014     Document Type: Article

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