Climatological extremes of simulated annual mean rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5289-5304

  Hunt, Barrie G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EXTERNAL FORCING; SECULAR VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750828956     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3921.1     Document Type: Article

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