Precipitation in the Pearl River basin, South China: Scaling, regional patterns, and influence of large-scale climate anomalies

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1253-1268

  Niu, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD); Pearl River basin; Precipitation; Principal component analysis; Scale; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION DETECTORS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GEMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; PEARL RIVER BASIN; SCALE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WAVELETS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; TELECONNECTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFORM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG BASIN;

EID: 84878563486     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-012-0661-2     Document Type: Article

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