Assessment of apparent nonstationarity in time series of annual inflow, daily precipitation, and atmospheric circulation indices: A case study from southwest Western Australia

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Bates, Bryson C ^a   Chandler, Richard E ^b   Charles, Stephen P ^a   Campbell, Edward P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONSTANT LEVEL; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MOISTURE CONTENTS; NON-STATIONARITIES; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHWEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS;

DAMS; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INFLOW; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 78649963583     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009509     Document Type: Article

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