All-India Monsoon Index
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An all-India summer monsoon rainfall series for the instrumental
period of 1844-1991 has been constructed using a progressively
increasing station density to 1870, and one that is fixed thereafter
at a uniformly distributed 36 stations. The statistical scheme
accounts for the increasing variance contributed to the all-India
series by the increasing number of stations during the period
1844-1870. An interesting outcome of this study is that a reliable
estimate of summer monsoon rainfall over India can be obtained using
only 36 observations.
Reference
Sontakke, N.A. , G.B. Pant, and N. Singh 1993, "Construction of all-India
summer monsoon rainfall series for the period 1844-1991,
J. Clim.,
6, 1807-1811.