Heavy precipitation episodes and cosmic rays variation

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 157-161

  Mavrakis, A ^a   Lykoudis, S ^b  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; COSMIC RAY; DATA PROCESSING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33646343478     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-7-157-2006     Document Type: Article

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