Quasi periodicities of extreme precipitation events in the Yangtze River basin, China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 139-152

  Becker, S ^a   Hartmann, H ^b   Coulibaly, M ^a   Zhang, Q ^c   Jiang, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^d China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 55149115895     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-007-0357-6     Document Type: Article

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