The Modified Rainfall Anomaly Index (mRAI)—is this an alternative to the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) in evaluating future extreme precipitation characteristics?

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 827-844

  Hänsel, Stephanie ^a   Schucknecht, Anne ^a   Matschullat, Jörg ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84955684423     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1389-y     Document Type: Article

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