Geospatial Analysis of Space-Time Patterning of ENSO Forced Daily Precipitation Distributions in the Gulf of Mexico

Professional Geographer

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-101

  Munroe, Robert ^a   Crawford, Tom ^a   Curtis, Scott ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o; ENSO; hotspot analysis; Kolmogorov Smirnoff test; precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOT SPOT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84891561734     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2013.765291     Document Type: Article

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