Extremes in summer monsoon precipitation over India during 2001-2009 using CPC high-resolution data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 717-735

  Preethi, B ^a   Revadekar, J V ^a   Munot, A A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; REMOTE SENSING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SUMMER MONSOON PRECIPITATION; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTREME EVENT; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SUMMER;

INDIA;

EID: 79952373599     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.517795     Document Type: Article

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