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Singh P, Kumar V, Thomas T, Arora M (2008) Changes
in rainfall and relative humidity in different river
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181
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National Science Academy, 42 (1), Part-A: 22–33
Daniel WW (1978) Applied nonparametric statistics.
Houghton Mifflin Comp, Boston
Dash SK, Jenamani RK, Kalsi SR, Panda SK (2007)
Some evidence of climate change in twentieth-century
India. Climatic Change 85:299–321
Dore MHI (2005) Climate change and changes in global
precipitation patterns: what do we know? Environ Int
31:1167–1181
Ghosh S, Misra C (2010) Assessing hydrological impacts
of climate change modeling techniques and challenges. The Open Hydrol J 4:115–121
Guhathakurta P, Rajeevan M (2007) Trends in the rainfall
pattern over India. Int J Climatol 28(11):1453–1469
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
(2007) Climate change 2007: impacts, adaptation
and vulnerability. Contribution of working group II
to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
(2013) Climate change: the physical science basis.
Contribution of Working group I to the fifth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate
change Geneva, Switzerland: IPCC Secretariat
Jain SK, Kumar V, Saharia M (2013) Analysis of rainfall
and temperature trends in northeast India. Int J
Climatol 33(4):968–978
Kale V (2012) On the link between extreme floods and
excess monsoon epochs in South Asia. Clim Dyn
39:1107–1122
Kale VS (2014) Is flooding in South Asia getting worse
and more frequent? Singap J Trop Geogr 35:161–178
Kendall MG (1975) Rank correlation methods. Charles
Griffin, London
Kripalani RH, Kulkarni A, Sabade S, Khandekar ML
(2003) Indian monsoon variability in a global warming scenario. Nat Hazard 29:189–206
Krishnakumar KN, Prasada-Rao GSLHV, Gopakumar CS
(2009) Rainfall trends in twentieth century over
Kerala, India. Atm Environ 43:1940–1944
Kumar V, Jain SK (2010) Trends in seasonal and annual
rainfall and rainy days in Kashmir valley in the last
century. Quatern Int 2012:64–69
Kumar V, Jain SK, Singh Y (2010) Analysis of long-term
rainfall trends in India. Hydrol Sci J 55(4):484–496
Lal M (2001) Climatic change-Implications for India’s
water resource. J Indian Water Resour Soc 21:101–
119
Mann HB (1945) Nonparametric tests against trend.
Econometrica 13:245–259
Mukhopadhyay SC, Dasgupta A (2010) River dynamics
of West Bengal: physical aspects, vol I. Prayas,
Kolkata, pp 151–153
Patra JP, Mishra A, Singh R, Raghuwanshi NS (2012)
Detecting rainfall trends in twentieth century (1871–
2006) over Orissa State India. Climatic Change
111:801–817
Rao YP (1981) The climate of the Indian subcontinent. In:
Takahasi K, Arakawa H (eds) World survey of
climatology, 9. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 67–182
Rudra K (2010) Bānglār Nadikathā (in Bengali). Sahitya
Sansad, Kolkata
Sen RS, Balling RC Jr (2004) Trends in extreme daily
precipitation indices in India. Int J Climatol 24:457–
466
Sen PK (1968) Estimates of the regression coefficient
based on Kendall’s tau. J Am Stat Assoc 63:1379–
1389
Singh N, Sontakke NA (2002) On climate fluctuations
and environmental changes of the Indo Gangetic
plains in India. Clim Change 52:287–313
Singh P, Kumar V, Thomas T, Arora M (2008) Changes
in rainfall and relative humidity in different river
basins in the northwest and central India. Hydrol
Process 22:2982–2992
Vijaya VRS, Iniyan S and Goic R (2011) A review of
climate change, mitigation and adaptation. Renew
Sustain Energy Rev 16(1):878–897
WMO (1966) Climatic change, WMO technical note no.
79, WMO no. 195-TP-100. World Meteorological
Organization, Geneva
Zhang X, Zwiers FW, Hegerl GC, Lambert FG, Gillett NP,
Solomon S, Stott PA, Nozawa T (2007) Detection of
human influence on twentieth-century precipitation
trends. Nature 448:461–465
13 Changing Rainfall Patterns and Their Linkage to Floods …
181