Changes in annual land-surface precipitation over the twentieth and early twenty-first century

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 729-739

  Nickl, Elsa ^a   Willmott, Cort J ^a   Matsuura, Kenji ^a   Robeson, Scott M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Precipitation; Rain gauge data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 77956758000     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.500241     Document Type: Article

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