Annual and warm season drought intensity-duration-frequency analysis for Sonora, Mexico

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1897-1909

  Hallack Alegria, Michelle ^a   Watkins Jr , David W ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; STATISTICS;

DURATION ANALYSIS; INTENSITY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY;

DROUGHT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DROUGHT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RETURN PERIOD; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SONORA;

EID: 34249728952     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4101.1     Document Type: Article

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