Trends and extremes of drought indices throughout the 20th century in the Mediterranean

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-51

  Sousa, P M ^a   Trigo, R M ^a,b   Aizpurua, P ^c   Nieto, R ^a,d   Gimeno, L ^d   Garcia Herrera, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATIC REGION; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEVERE WEATHER; TELECONNECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 78651276560     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-33-2011     Document Type: Article

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