Analysis of spatial and temporal extreme monsoonal rainfall over South Asia using complex networks

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 971-987

  Malik, Nishant ^a,b   Bookhagen, Bodo ^c   Marwan, Norbert ^a   Kurths, Jürgen ^a,d  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Event synchronization; Indian summer monsoon; Rainfall patterns

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EXTREME EVENT; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER VAPOR;

SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84864380519     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1156-4     Document Type: Article

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