Twentieth-century summer precipitation in South Eastern South America: Comparison of gridded and station data

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2923-2928

  Gonzalez, P L M ^a   Goddard, Lisa ^a   Greene, Arthur M ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Century long trend; Gridded dataset; Precipitation; South America; Station data

Indexed keywords

CENTURY-LONG TREND; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GRIDDED AND STATION DATUM; GRIDDED DATASET; SOUTH AMERICA; STATION DATA; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); WETTING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; PARAGUAY; URUGUAY;

EID: 84886262447     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3633     Document Type: Article

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