Wet and dry spell characteristics of global tropical rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3830-3841

  Ratan, R ^a   Venugopal, V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

rainfall; universality; wet and dry spells

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DROUGHT; TROPICS;

DAILY RAINFALL; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TOTAL RAINFALL; TROPICAL RAINFALL; UNIVERSALITY; WET AND DRY;

RAIN;

ARID REGION; CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEASON; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879424593     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20275     Document Type: Article

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