A study of weather types at Athens and Thessaloniki and their relationship to circulation types for the cold-wet period, part I: Two-step cluster analysis

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 163-177

  Michailidou, C ^a   Maheras, P ^a   Arseni Papadimititriou, A ^a   Kolyva Machera, F ^a   Anagnostopoulou, C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND VELOCITY;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; CENTRAL MACEDONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 67649399073     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0057-x     Document Type: Article

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