Recent climate change in the Arabian Peninsula: Annual rainfall and temperature analysis of Saudi Arabia for 1978-2009

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 953-966

  Almazroui, Mansour ^a   Nazrul Islam, M ^a   Athar, H ^a   Jones, P D ^a,b   Rahman, M Ashfaqur ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabian Peninsula; Climate impact; Rainfall climatology; Saudi Arabia; Temperature climatology; Trend

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; ARABIAN PENINSULA; CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE IMPACTS; DATA SETS; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SAND DESERTS; SAUDI ARABIA; TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS; TREND;

ALUMINUM; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; RAINFALL; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84859952582     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3446     Document Type: Article

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