Spatial and temporal patterns of the mean annual precipitation at decadal time scale in southern Italy (Calabria region)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-444

  Buttafuoco, Gabriele ^a   Caloiero, Tommaso ^b   Coscarelli, Roberto ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 80052725531     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0398-8     Document Type: Article

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