Variability of extreme temperature and precipitation in Iran during recent decades

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-343

  Rahimzadeh, Fatemeh ^a   Asgari, Ahmad ^a   Fattahi, Ebrahim ^a  

^a Atmospheric Science and Meteorological Research Center ASMERC   (Iran)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatic extremes; Climatic indices; Extreme precipitation and Iran; Extreme temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC EXTREMES; CLIMATIC INDEX; CLIMATIC INDICES; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; EXPERT TEAMS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION AND IRAN; EXTREME TEMPERATURE; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; FROST DAYS; MISSING DATA; SYNOPTIC STATION; WESTERN REGION; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FROST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 66049091643     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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