Construction of a daily precipitation grid for southeastern South America for the period 1961-2000

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2508-2519

  Jones, P D ^a   Lister, D H ^a   Harpham, C ^a   Rusticucci, M ^b   Penalba, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Gridding; Precipitation; South America

Indexed keywords

DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; GRIDDING; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL; SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH AMERICA;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; URUGUAY;

EID: 84883161812     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3605     Document Type: Article

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