Atmospheric predictors for major floods in the Negev Desert, Israel

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1137-1147

  Kahana, Ron ^a,b   Ziv, Baruch ^c   Dayan, Uri ^d   Enzel, Yehouda ^d  

^a Ramon Science Center   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Extreme floods forecasting; Hydroclimatology; Mediterranean cyclone; Negev Desert; Red Sea trough

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; STORMS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

AIR MASSES; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLONE; FLOOD FORECASTING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 3342996144     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1056     Document Type: Article

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