Spatial distribution of recent rainfall trends in Spain (1961-2006)

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 656-667

  Río, S del ^a   Herrero, L ^a   Fraile, R ^a   Penas, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data interpolation; Precipitation dataset; Spain; Spatial rainfall trends

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; DATA INTERPOLATION; DATA SETS; GEOSTATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; INTERPOLATED PRECIPITATION; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; MANN-KENDALL TEST; NON-PARAMETRIC; RAINFALL TRENDS; REGRESSION LINES; SPAIN; SPATIAL RAINFALL TRENDS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICAL TOOLS; WEATHER STATIONS; WESTERN AREA;

INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VISUALIZATION;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; GEOSTATISTICS; INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREND ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

SPAIN;

EID: 78649819346     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2111     Document Type: Article

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