Spatiotemporal patterns in the mean and extreme temperature indices of India, 1971-2005

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 3585-3603

  Panda, Dileep K ^a   Mishra, A ^b   Kumar, A ^a   Mandal, K G ^a   Thakur, A K ^a   Srivastava, R C ^a  

^a ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF WATER MANAGEMENT   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ENSO; Extreme temperature indices; Global warming; India; Seasonality; Trends

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ENSO; EXTREME TEMPERATURE INDICES; INDIA; SEASONALITY; TRENDS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 84911394238     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3931     Document Type: Article

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