Regional and global atmospheric patterns governing rainfall in the southern Levant

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-73

  Ziv, Baruch ^a   Dayan, Uri ^b   Kushnir, Yohanan ^c   Roth, Chaggi ^b   Enzel, Yehouda ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation maps; Global circulations; Levant; Mediterranean climate; Rainfall variability; Teleconnection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MAPS; RAIN; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CORRELATION MAPS; GLOBAL CIRCULATIONS; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; TELECONNECTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TELECONNECTION;

LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 31944443071     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1238     Document Type: Article

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