Investigation of meteorological extreme events over coastal regions of Iran

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 401-412

  Marofi, Safar ^a   Sohrabi, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Mohammadi, Kurosh ^b   Sabziparvar, Ali Akbar ^a   Abyaneh, Hamid Zare ^a  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAST; EXTREME EVENT; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WIND VELOCITY;

IRAN;

EID: 79951799635     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0298-3     Document Type: Article

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