The influence of a storage lake in the Arid Elqui Valley in Chile on local climate

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 227-241

  Bischoff Gauss I ^a   Kalthoff, N ^b   Fiebig Wittmaack, M ^c,d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^d CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; LAKE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STRATIFICATION; WIND FIELD;

CHILE; COQUIMBO; ELQUI RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33745830433     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-005-0190-8     Document Type: Article

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