Spatial variability of annual precipitation using globally gridded data sets from 1951 to 2000

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 690-698

  Sokol Jurković, Renata ^a   Pasarić, Zoran ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Anomaly of the coefficient of variation; El Ni o; Precipitation; Variability; VasClimO

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DATA SETS; GLOBAL DATA; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GREENLAND; HIGH VARIABILITY; INTERPOLATION ERROR; LAND AREAS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; PROJECT DATA; REANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBTROPICAL LATITUDES; SURFACE CLIMATE; VARIABILITY; VARIABILITY ANALYSIS; VASCLIMO; ZONAL PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC CURRENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84873522229     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3462     Document Type: Article

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