Intra- to multi-decadal terrestrial precipitation regimes at the end of the 20th century

Climatic Change

Volumn 78, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 317-340

  Mauget, Steven A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

INTRA- TO MULTI-DECADAL (IMD) VARIATION; MULTI-DECADAL PRECIPITATION; STATIONARY CLIMATE VARIABILITY; TERRESTRIAL PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLIMATE VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAMPLING; SURVEY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749345675     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9129-z     Document Type: Review

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