Annual and seasonal trends of cooling, heating, and industrial degree-days in coastal regions of Saudi Arabia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 479-488

  Rehman, Shafiqur ^a   Al Hadhrami, Luai M ^a   Khan, Shamsuddin ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COASTAL ZONE; COOLING; HEATING; TREND ANALYSIS;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 79957531782     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0359-7     Document Type: Article

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