Rainfall and rainy days trend in Iran

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 187-213

  Soltani, Saeed ^a   Saboohi, R ^a   Yaghmaei, L ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MANN-KENDALL TEST; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; RAINY DAYS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNOPTIC STATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

RAIN; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; LINEARITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

IRAN;

EID: 83055194644     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0146-1     Document Type: Article

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