Sunshine duration hours over the Greek region

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 83, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 107-120

  Matzarakis, Andreas P ^a   Katsoulis, V D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAY LENGTH; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER STATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 28044459835     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-005-0158-8     Document Type: Article

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