Investigating annual and monthly trends in precipitation structure: An overview across Portugal

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2429-2440

  De Lima, M I P ^a,c   Carvalho, S C P ^b,c   P De Lima, J L M ^b,c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AZORES; MADEIRA; PORTUGAL;

EID: 78649753395     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-2429-2010     Document Type: Article

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