Trends in global monsoon area and precipitation over the past 30 years

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hsu, Pang Chi ^a   Li, Tim ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; MONSOON INTENSITY; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; MONSOON RAINFALL; PER UNIT; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

DATA SET; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

EID: 79955001701     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046893     Document Type: Article

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