Links between the rainfall regime in Israel and location and intensity of Cyprus lows

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1014-1025

  Saaroni, H ^a   Halfon, N ^b   Ziv, B ^c   Alpert, P ^a   Kutiel, H ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cyprus low; Eastern mediterranean; Interannual variations; Israel; Rainfall; Synoptic classification

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; RAINFALL REGIME; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SEMI-ARID REGION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE CYCLONE; SYNOPTIC ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC CLASSIFICATION; SYNOPTIC SYSTEMS;

ARID REGIONS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STORMS;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLASSIFICATION; CYCLONE; DIURNAL VARIATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MOUNTAIN REGION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND VELOCITY;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 77953174584     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1912     Document Type: Article

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