Precipitation changes from two long-term hourly datasets in Tuscany, Italy

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3977-3985

  Bartolini, Giorgio ^a   Grifoni, Daniele ^a,b   Torrigiani, Tommaso ^a,b   Vallorani, Roberto ^a,b   Meneguzzo, Francesco ^b   Gozzini, Bernardo ^a,b  

^a LaMMA Consortium   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyclogenesis; Daily hourly indices; Hourly precipitation datasets; Precipitation intensity classes; Quantile regression; Western Mediterranean area

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CYCLOGENESIS; DAILY/HOURLY INDICES; HOURLY PRECIPITATION DATASETS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTILE REGRESSION; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

RAIN;

EID: 84914169527     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3956     Document Type: Article

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