Characterizing and modeling temporal and spatial trends in rainfall extremes

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 241-253

  Aryal, Santosh K ^a   Bate, Bryson C ^a   Campbell, Edward P ^a   Li, Yun ^a   Palmer, Mark J ^a   Viney, Neil R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WINTER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SWAN RIVER [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 65349094039     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM1007.1     Document Type: Article

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