Links between circulation types and precipitation over Spain

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 35, Issue 9-12, 2010, Pages 437-447

  Casado, M J ^a   Pastor, M A ^a   Doblas Reyes, F J ^b  

^a Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia AEMET   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circulation types; Climate variability; COST733; Spain winter precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC REGIONS; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; DISCRIMINATORY POWER; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NORTHERN REGIONS; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; STANDARD DEVIATION; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WINTER;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 77954958508     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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