Long-term rainfall monthly shortage in Spain: Spatial patterns, statistical models and time trends

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1668-1688

  Martinez M D ^a   Lana, X ^a   Burgueno A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distribution theory of runs; Gamma and poisson gamma distributions; Markov chains; Monthly rainfall shortage; Normalized shortage curves; Pearson type III and generalized pareto distributions; Spain; Time trends

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION THEORY; GAMMA AND POISSON-GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTHLY RAINFALL SHORTAGE; NORMALIZED SHORTAGE CURVES; SPAIN; TIME TRENDS;

FRUITS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PARETO PRINCIPLE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

RAIN;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

SPAIN;

EID: 77956567622     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2017     Document Type: Article

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