Prediction of southern Indian winter monsoon rainfall from September local upper-air temperatures

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 189-199

  Bhanu Kumar, O S R U ^a   Naidu, C V ^a   Rao, S R L ^a   Rao, B Ravi Srinivasa ^a  

^a ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; LINEAR REGRESSION; RAIN; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANNUAL RAINFALL; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LINEAR CORRELATION; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION EQUATIONS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; UPPER-AIR TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL ZONE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONALITY; WINTER;

ANDHRA PRADESH; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; NAGPUR; TAMIL NADU; VISAKHAPATNAM;

EID: 7244219943     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482704001306     Document Type: Article

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