Long-range alternation of extreme high day and night temperatures in Lithuania

Baltica

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 72-81

  Kažys, Justas ^a   Stankunavičius, Gintautas ^a   Rimkus, Egidijus ^a   Bukantis, Arunas ^a   Valiukas, Donatas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Atmospheric circulation; Extremely hot days; Extremely hot nights; Gross wetter type; Lithuania; Litynsky classification

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; EXTREME EVENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

LITHUANIA;

EID: 84855768265     PISSN: 00673064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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