Long term climatology and trends of heat waves over India during the recent 50 years (1961-2010)

Mausam

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 585-604

  Pai, D S ^a   Nair, Smitha Anil ^a   Ramanathan, A N ^b  

^a Ministry of Earth Sciences   (India)

^b Regional Meteorological Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatology; Decadal variation; ENSO; Heat waves; Long term trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930904636     PISSN: 02529416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54302/MAUSAM.V64I4.742     Document Type: Article

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