Regional climate change in Portugal: precipitation variability associated with large-scale atmospheric circulation

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 619-635

  Corte Real, João ^a   Qian, Budong ^a   Xu, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 3543007704     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199805)18:6<619::AID-JOC271>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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