Fire weather in Israel - Synoptic climatological analysis

GeoJournal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 523-538

  Levin, Noam ^a   Saaroni, Hadas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fire weather; Israel; North African ('Sharav') cyclone; Persian Gulf trough; Red Sea trough

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0032732879     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007087217249     Document Type: Article

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