Spatial Analysis of Monthly and Annual Precipitation Trends in Turkey

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 609-621

  Yavuz, Hüseyin ^a   Erdoğan, Saffet ^a  

^a AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

GIS; Interpolation; Precipitation; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN GAGES; WATER RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED; ORDINARY KRIGING METHODS; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GIS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

BURDUR [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84856002940     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9935-6     Document Type: Article

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