Annual and seasonal climatic analysis of surface air temperature variations at six southern Mediterranean stations

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 55-68

  Aesawy, A M ^a   Hasanean, H M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HOMOGENEITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0032470131     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007040050051     Document Type: Article

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