Drought in Bulgaria and atmospheric synoptic conditions over Europe

GeoJournal

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 149-157

  Tran, Liem ^a   Knight, C Gregory ^a   Wesner, Victoria ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; Drought; Spatial dryness index; Synoptic

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PLANNING; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; INDEX METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1542581544     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GEJO.0000003616.82958.e3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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