Lack of uniform trends but increasing spatial variability in observed Indian rainfall extremes

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 86-91

  Ghosh, Subimal ^a   Das, Debasish ^b   Kao, Shih Chieh ^c   Ganguly, Auroop R ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAINFALL; REGIONAL PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBANIZATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

INDIA;

EID: 84857467819     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1327     Document Type: Article

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