Rainfall trends analysis of Iran in the last half of the twentieth century

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Modarres, Reza ^a   Sarhadi, Ali ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS;

ANNUAL RAINFALLS; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; GAUGING STATIONS; INITIAL STAGES; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TESTS; MANN-KENDALL; RAINFALL TRENDS; REGIONAL TRENDS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TWENTIETH CENTURIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 65249172009     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010707     Document Type: Article

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