Diametric changes in trends and patterns of extreme rainfall over India from pre-1950 to post-1950

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3253-3258

  Vittal, H ^a   Karmakar, Subhankar ^a   Ghosh, Subimal ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Indian Monsoon; Rainfall Extremes

Indexed keywords

CHANGE-POINT ANALYSIS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME RAINFALL; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; INDIAN MONSOON; RAINFALL EXTREMES; SPATIAL NONUNIFORMITY; URBANIZED AREA;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EXTREME EVENT; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

INDIA;

EID: 84880567913     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50631     Document Type: Article

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