The impact of an upper tropospheric teleconnection pattern on precipitation extremes over Cyprus

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 16, Issue , 2008, Pages 131-136

  Hatzaki, M ^a   Lingis, P ^b,c   Flocas, H A ^a   Michaelides, S ^b   Oikonomou, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; CYPRUS; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 42149168548     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-16-131-2008     Document Type: Article

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