Trends and extreme value analysis of rainfall pattern over homogeneous monsoon regions of India

Natural Hazards

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1003-1017

  Lakshmi Kumar, T V ^a   Koteswara Rao, K ^b   Barbosa, Humberto ^c   Uma, R ^a  

^a SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decadal trends of rainfall; ENSO indices; Extreme value analysis and homogeneous monsoon regions of India

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LA NINA; MONSOON; NATURAL HAZARD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TELECONNECTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 84905397337     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1127-2     Document Type: Article

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