Power-law relationship in describing temporal and spatial precipitation pattern in Turkey

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 93-106

  Kadioglu M ^a   Sen Z ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION PATTERN; RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

TURKEY;

EID: 0031945520     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007040050015     Document Type: Article

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