Recent trends in pre-monsoon daily temperature extremes over India

Journal of Earth System Science

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-65

  Kothawale, D R ^a   Revadekar, J V ^a   Kumar, K Rupa ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate extremes; Heat waves; Pre monsoon temperatures

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 76449084132     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: 02534126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12040-010-0008-7     Document Type: Article

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