Indian summer monsoon rainfall: Implications of contrasting trends in the spatial variability of means and extremes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Ghosh, Subimal ^a   Vittal, H ^b   Sharma, Tarul ^a   Karmakar, Subhankar ^a,b   Kasiviswanathan, K S ^c   Dhanesh, Y ^c   Sudheer, K P ^c   Gunthe, S S ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

HYDROLOGY; INDIA; SEASON;

HYDROLOGY; INDIA; RAIN; SEASONS;

EID: 84995460357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158670     Document Type: Article

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