Trends of heavy precipitation events in global observation and reanalysis datasets

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 96-99

  Takahashi, Kiyotoshi ^a   Yamazaki, Nobuo ^a   Kamahori, Hirotaka ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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EID: 34548020436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2006-025     Document Type: Article

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