Identification of trends in Malaysian monthly runoff under the scaling hypothesis;Identification des tendances des débits mensuels de Malaisie sous l'hypothèse de scalance

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 917-929

  Rao, A Ramachandra ^a   Azli, M ^a   Pae, Lai Jeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Malaysia; Monthly rainfall; Runoff data; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA SEQUENCES; HYDROLOGICAL DATA; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; MONTHLY RAINFALL; PRE-PROCESSING OF DATA; RANDOM DATA; RIVER FLOW; RUNOFF DATA; SCALING PARAMETER; TREND ANALYSIS; TREND TESTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA HANDLING; STATISTICAL TESTS; WATER RESOURCES;

RUNOFF;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA PROCESSING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 80052166832     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2011.588172     Document Type: Article

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