ABRUPT CHANGES IN RAINFALL REGIMES
β Scribed by G. Reynolds
- Book ID
- 112106635
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1956
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0043-1656
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## Abstract Secular changes are demonstrated by residual mass curves. It is shown that tropical rainfall decreased abruptly at the end of the 19th century. This was due largely to a contraction of the rainy belt and a shortening of the wet seasons. In the SE. Asian monsoon region the annual rainfal
## Abstract New data are given which extend from 1941 to 1960 an earlier study (Kraus 1955). The analysis suggests a return to wetter conditions in lowβlatitude eastβcoast regions, after a drier period which persisted through nearly half a century. This change appears to be paralleled by the recurr
## Abstract The mean rainfall along the east coasts of North America and Australia is shown to have decreased abruptly at the end of the 19th century, in conformity with results for the tropics obtained in an earlier paper. A simultaneous decrease of the rainfall in the semiβarid western parts of N