To know what we cannot know: Global mapping of minimal detectable absolute trends in annual precipitation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Morin, Efrat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIANCES; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; GLOBAL MAPPING; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL SCALE; HUMAN SOCIETY; MANN-KENDALL; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NATURAL VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; RELATIVE VALUE; TREND DETECTION;

ARID REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CHANGE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 79960057537     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009798     Document Type: Article

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