Twentieth century variability of surface humidity as the climate change indicator in Kraków (Southern Poland)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 475-482

  Wypych, Agnieszka ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATURATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VAPOR PRESSURE;

CRACOW; MALOPOLSKIE; POLAND;

EID: 77955176763     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0221-y     Document Type: Article

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