Spatial and temporal trends of mean and extreme rainfall and temperature for the 33 urban centers of the arid and semi-arid state of Rajasthan, India

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 138, Issue , 2014, Pages 73-90

  Pingale, Santosh M ^a   Khare, Deepak ^a   Jat, Mahesh K ^b   Adamowski, Jan ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b MALAVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extreme events; India; Interpolation; Mann Kendall test; Rainfall; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENTS; INDIA; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; MANN-KENDALL TEST; SEN'S SLOPE ESTIMATORS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS; STATISTICAL TREND ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERPOLATION; RAIN; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGY; INTERPOLATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CHITTORGARH; HANUMANGARH; INDIA; NAGAUR; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 84888074899     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.10.024     Document Type: Article

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