Effects of air pollution on precipitation in Kraków (Cracow), Poland in the years 1971-2005

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-302

  Bokwa, Anita ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; AUTUMN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPRING (SEASON); TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CRACOW; MALOPOLSKIE; POLAND;

EID: 77955094115     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0209-7     Document Type: Article

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