The possible influence of solar activity on Indian summer monsoon rainfall

Applied Geophysics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 231-237

  Lihua, Ma ^a   Yanben, Han ^a   Zhiqiang, Yin ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Scargle periodogram; Solar activity; Summer monsoon rainfall; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948822304     PISSN: 16727975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11770-007-0029-4     Document Type: Review

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