Spatial Distribution and Temporal Trends in Precipitation Concentration Indices for the Southwest China

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3941-3955

  Shi, Peng ^a   Wu, Miao ^a   Qu, Simin ^a   Jiang, Peng ^b   Qiao, Xueyuan ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Zhou, Mi ^a   Zhang, Zhicai ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurst exponent; Precipitation concentration; Rainfall trends; Southwest China

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FLOODS; RAIN; WATER RESOURCES;

CONCENTRATION INDICES; HURST EXPONENTS; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL TRENDS; RESCALED RANGE ANALYSIS; SOUTHWEST CHINA; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TRENDS OF PRECIPITATIONS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; CHONGQING; GUIZHOU; SICHUAN; YUNNAN;

EID: 84938974241     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-1038-3     Document Type: Article

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