Regional and local climatic effects on the Dead-Sea evaporation

Climatic Change

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 455-468

  Shafir, Haim ^a   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC EFFECTS; DEAD SEA; GLOBAL EFFECTS; LOCAL EFFECTS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NATURAL EVAPORATION; PAN EVAPORATION; SEA BREEZE; SYNOPTIC SYSTEMS;

EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EVAPORATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGY;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 79952755519     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9892-8     Document Type: Article

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