Non-linear regression model for spatial variation in precipitation chemistry for South India

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1147-1152

  Siva Soumya, B ^a   Sekhar, M ^a   Riotte, J ^a   Braun, Jean Jacques ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Annual rainfall; Coastal distance; Multiple regression; Rain chemistry

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COASTAL DISTANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI); DATA POINTS; DOWN-SCALING; LOCAL EMISSIONS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NON LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NON-LINEAR; POWER LAWS; PRECIPITATION CHEMISTRY; RAIN CHEMISTRY; REGRESSION PARAMETERS; RELATIVE ERROR (RE); SOUTH INDIA; TEMPORAL SCALING;

CALCIUM; LANDFORMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SODIUM;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINWATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 58649091299     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.021     Document Type: Article

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