Changes of precipitation amounts and extremes over Japan between 1901 and 2012 and their connection to climate indices

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 2273-2292

  Duan, Weili ^a,b   He, Bin ^a   Takara, Kaoru ^b   Luo, Pingping ^a,b   Hu, Maochuan ^b   Alias, Nor Eliza ^b   Nover, Daniel ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c US Agency for International Development   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Climate indices; Continuous wavelet transform; Extreme indices; Japan; Precipitation variation

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 84943815241     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2778-8     Document Type: Article

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