Calendaricities and multimodality in the Eastern Mediterranean cyclonic activity

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 587-596

  Osetinsky, I ^a   Alpert, P ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 34047239350     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-6-587-2006     Document Type: Article

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