Long term spatial and temporal rainfall trends and homogeneity analysis in Wainganga basin, Central India

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-61

  Taxak, Arun Kumar ^a   Murumkar, A R ^a   Arya, D S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Homogeneity Mann Kendall test; Rainfall; Sen's slope estimator; Trend; Wainganga

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904651972     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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