Caribbean precipitation: Review, model and prospect

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 265-276

  Gamble, Douglas W ^a   Curtis, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodality; Caribbean precipitation; Climate change; Midsummer drought; Midsummer dry spell

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 70249085618     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133308096027     Document Type: Article

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