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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 138425, 11 pages
Characteristic Features of Precipitation Extremes over India in the Warming Scenarios
1Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, NCL Post, Pashan, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India
2World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Received 27 December 2010; Accepted 24 March 2011
Academic Editor: Eugene Rozanov
Copyright © 2011 J. V. Revadekar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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