Identification of Trend in Reference Evapotranspiration Series with Serial Dependence in Iran

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2219-2232

  Tabari, Hossein ^a   Nikbakht, Jaefar ^b   Talaee, P Hosseinzadeh ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Kendall test; Penman Monteith model; Pre whitening; Serial correlation; Spearman test; Trend magnitude

Indexed keywords

KENDALL TEST; PENMAN-MONTEITH; PRE-WHITENING; SERIAL CORRELATION; SPEARMAN TESTS; TREND MAGNITUDE;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

TESTING;

CORRELATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

IRAN;

EID: 84860849711     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0011-7     Document Type: Article

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