Response of the water balance in Greece to temperature and precipitation trends

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 13-24

  Mavromatis, T ^a   Stathis, D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE EFFECT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SOIL WATER; WATER BUDGET;

GREECE;

EID: 79955070850     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0320-9     Document Type: Article

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