Monsoon rainfall extreme indices and tendencies from 1954-2003 in Kerala, India

Climatic Change

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 407-419

  Pal, Indrani ^a   Al Tabbaa, Abir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGING CLIMATE; DAILY RAINFALL; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME RAINFALL; KERALA , INDIA; LOCAL SCALE; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; MONSOON RAINFALL; MONSOON SEASON; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; POTENTIAL ABILITY; RAINFALL EXTREMES; TOTAL RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EXTREME EVENT; INDEX METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

INDIA; KERALA;

EID: 79955853830     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0044-6     Document Type: Article

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