A statistical analysis of the daily precipitation over Serbia: Trends and indices

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 69-78

  Unkašević, Miroslava ^a   Tošić, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SERBIA;

EID: 80054100216     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0418-8     Document Type: Article

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