Warm season precipitation climatology: First European results

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 15-18

  Levizzani, V ^a   Ginnetti, R ^a   Laing, A G ^b   Carbone, R E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING METHOD; METEOSAT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER; ZONAL FLOW;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33646380365     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-7-15-2006     Document Type: Article

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