Changes to the temporal distribution of daily precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 8887-8894

  Rajah, Kailash ^a   O'Leary, Tess ^a   Turner, Alice ^a   Petrakis, Gabriella ^a   Leonard, Michael ^a   Westra, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

GHCND; Gini index; precipitation; temporal pattern; temporal precipitation distribution

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; GHCND; GINI INDEX; GLOBAL HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921883394     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062156     Document Type: Article

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