High impact weather and cyclones simultaneity in Catalonia

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 12, Issue , 2007, Pages 115-120

  Campins, J ^a   Aran, M ^b   Genoves A ^a   Jansa A ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Meteorología   (Spain)

^b Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLONE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; WEATHER;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34648834249     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-12-115-2007     Document Type: Article

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