Rainfall redistribution in a tropical forest: Spatial and temporal patterns

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Zimmermann, Alexander ^a   Zimmermann, Beate ^b   Elsenbeer, Helmut ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ARTIFACT; AUTOCORRELATION STRUCTURES; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; EXPLANATORY POWER; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; NEAR-SURFACE; RAINFALL REDISTRIBUTION; SEASONALITY; SEMI-DECIDUOUS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL STABILITY; THROUGHFALL; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VARIOGRAMS; WET AND DRY; WET SEASON;

AUTOCORRELATION; CORRELATION DETECTORS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AUTOCORRELATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THROUGHFALL; TROPICAL FOREST; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 72149134603     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007470     Document Type: Article

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