On the link between extreme floods and excess monsoon epochs in South Asia

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1107-1122

  Kale, Vishwas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

Excess monsoon rainfall periods; Extreme floods; Large rivers; Palaeofloods; South Asia

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOFLOOD; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BANGLADESH; INDIA; NEPAL; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84865584905     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1251-6     Document Type: Article

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