Evidence for long-term regional changes in precipitation on the East Coast Mountains in Mauritius

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1164-1177

  Senapathi, Deepa ^a   Underwood, Fiona ^a   Black, Emily ^a   Nicoll, Malcolm A C ^a   Norris, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GAMs; Mauritius; Rainfall trends

Indexed keywords

DAILY RAINFALL; EAST COAST; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; IF THERE ARE; INDIAN MONSOON; INTERANNUAL; INTERDECADAL; LONG-TERM TREND; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; RAIN DAYS; RAINFALL PATTERNS; RAINFALL TRENDS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; RAINY DAYS; SCALE FACTOR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL RAINFALL; STATISTICAL MODELLING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; MAURITIUS;

EID: 77954350426     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1953     Document Type: Article

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