Are precipitation levels getting higher? Statistical evidence for the Netherlands

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 4701-4714

  Koning, Alex J ^a   Franses, Philip Hans ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DAILY PRECIPITATION LEVELS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 30144437417     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3576.1     Document Type: Article

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