Diagnosis of variability and trends in a global precipitation dataset using a physically motivated statistical model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4154-4166

  Sapiano, M R P ^a,b   Stephenson, D B ^a   Grubb, H J ^a   Arkin, P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE HUMIDITY; PENTAD PRECIPITATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC THEORY; SATURATION SPECIFIC HUMIDITY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DATA SET; HUMIDITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749078764     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3849.1     Document Type: Article

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