Recent trends of mean maximum and minimum air temperatures in the western half of Iran

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 121-131

  Tabari, Hossein ^a   Talaee, Parisa Hosseinzadeh ^a  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

IRAN;

EID: 79952418477     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-011-0125-0     Document Type: Article

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