Present climate trend analysis of the Etesian winds in the Aegean Sea

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 459-472

  Poupkou, Anastasia ^a   Zanis, Prodromos ^a   Nastos, Panagiotis ^b   Papanastasiou, Dimitrios ^c   Melas, Dimitrios ^a   Tourpali, Kleareti ^a   Zerefos, Christos ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^d BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 81155135002     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0443-7     Document Type: Article

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