Trends in drought intensity and variability in the middle Ebro valley (NE of the Iberian peninsula) during the second half of the twentieth century

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 247-258

  Vicente Serrano, S M ^a   Cuadrat Prats, J M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEMIARID REGION; TREND ANALYSIS; VALLEY;

EBRO VALLEY; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33847373738     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-006-0236-6     Document Type: Article

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