Inter-annual and inter-decadal variability of dry days in Argentina

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 834-842

  Rivera, Juan Antonio ^a,b   Penalba, Olga Clorinda ^b   Bettolli, María Laura ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Climatology; Dry days; Linear trends; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA; CUBIC POLYNOMIALS; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LINEAR TRENDS; PATAGONIAN COASTS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 84874763781     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3472     Document Type: Article

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