## Abstract A strong decreasing trend in the Canary Islands' precipitation is detected by studying daily rainfall time series for the second half of the 20th century. An analysis of the extreme events shows that this trend is due mainly to a decrease in the upper percentiles of the precipitation di
The JOSO site testing campaigns in the Canary Islands
โ Scribed by Peter N. Brandt; Alberto Righini
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 653 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0083-6656
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