Abstract: The long-term mean date of the monsoon onset over Kerala (MOK) varies between 30 May and 2 June according to different estimates, with a standard deviation of 8?9 days. The earliest date of MOK, and the most delayed one, ...

Abstract: This paper presents and evaluates a method for the construction of long-range and wide-area temporal spatial datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (maximum and minimum). This method combines the interpolation of ...

Abstract: The development of serially complete (no missing values) daily maximum?minimum temperatures and total precipitation time series over the western United States is documented. Several estimation techniques based on spatial ...

Abstract: One of the major concerns with detecting global climate change is the quality of the data. Climate data are extremely sensitive to errant values and outliers. Prior to analysis of these time series, it is important to ...

Abstract: bservations and sea surface temperature (SST)-forced ECHAM5 simulations are examined to study the seasonal cycle of eastern Africa rainfall and its SST sensitivity during 1979?2012, focusing on interannual variability and ...