Long-term trends and variability of rainfall extremes in the Philippines

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 137, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-13

  Villafuerte, Marcelino Q ^a,b   Matsumoto, Jun ^a,c   Akasaka, Ikumi ^a,d   Takahashi, Hiroshi G ^a,c   Kubota, Hisayuki ^c   Cinco, Thelma A ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Philippine Atmospheric   (Philippines)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; ENSO extreme rainfall relationships; Extreme precipitation indices; The Philippines; Western North Pacific subtropical high

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; ENSO-EXTREME RAINFALL RELATIONSHIPS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; PHILIPPINES; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; METEOROLOGY;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

BICOL; ILOILO; MASBATE [(ISL) VISAYAS]; MASBATE [(PRV) BICOL]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; VISAYAS; WESTERN VISAYAS;

EID: 84886305637     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.09.021     Document Type: Article

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