Precipitation analysis over southwest Iran: Trends and projections

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 205-216

  Dhorde, Amit G ^a   Zarenistanak, Mohammad ^a   Kripalani, R H ^b   Preethi, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; TESTING METHOD; TREND ANALYSIS;

IRAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84899492434     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-014-0313-9     Document Type: Article

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