Statistical significance of trends in monthly heavy precipitation over the US

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1375-1387

  Mahajan, Salil ^a   North, Gerald R ^b   Saravanan, R ^b   Genton, Marc G ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATISTICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859006150     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1091-4     Document Type: Article

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