Spatial variability of monthly and annual rainfall data over Southern Tunisia

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 832-839

  Ellouze, Manel ^a   Azri, Chafai ^a   Abida, Habib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Multiple regression; Principal Component Analysis; Rainfall; Representation quality; Southern Tunisia

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RAINFALL; RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL SERIES; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REPRESENTATION QUALITY; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN TUNISIA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL VARIANCE;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FORESTRY; METAL ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

EID: 67649158700     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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