A mid-winter, tropical extreme flood-producing storm in southern Israel: Synoptic scale analysis

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 53-63

  Ziv, B ^a   Dayan, U ^b   Sharon, D ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; STORM; WINTER;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT; WORLD;

EID: 15444363140     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-003-0054-7     Document Type: Article

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