Semi-objective classification for daily synoptic systems: Application to the eastern Mediterranean climate change

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1001-1011

  Alpert, P ^a   Osetinsky, I ^a   Ziv, B ^b   Shafir, H ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classification; Climate change; Discriminant analysis; Eastern Mediterranean climatology; Surface meteorological fields; Synoptic systems

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OSCILLATIONS;

SEMI-OBJECTIVE CLASSIFICATION; SYNOPTIC SYSTEMS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 3142532621     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1036     Document Type: Article

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