Trends in daily solar radiation and precipitation coefficients of variation since 1984

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1330-1339

  Medvigy, David ^a   Beaulieu, Claudie ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Convective clouds; Precipitation; Radiative transfer; Statistical techniques; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; MARITIME CONTINENT; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SOLAR RADIATION VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE SOLAR RADIATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TRENDS;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

SUN;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

AFRICA;

EID: 84856998289     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4115.1     Document Type: Article

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