Characterization of the autumn Iberian precipitation from long-term datasets: Comparison between observed and hindcasted data

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 527-541

  Valero, F ^a   Martin M L ^b   Sotillo, Marcos G ^c   Morata, A ^d   Luna, M Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c Organismo Público Puertos del Estado ^*  (Spain)

^d Instituto Nacional de Meteorología ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Autumn Iberian precipitation; Hindcasted data; Observational data; Principal component analysis; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTUMN IBERIAN PRECIPITATION; AUTUMN PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COASTAL AREA; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HINDCAST; HINDCASTED DATA; HIPOCAS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; IBERIAN PENINSULA; IN-SITU; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PRECIPITATION DATA; RAINFALL REGIME; REANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TIME FEATURES; TIME PERIODS; TIME VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AUTUMN; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; HINDCASTING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649983044     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1726     Document Type: Article

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