Variability in temperature, precipitation and river discharge in the Baltic States

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 150-162

  Kriauciuniene, Jurate ^a   Meilutyte Barauskiene, Diana ^a   Reihan, Alvina ^b   Koltsova, Tatjana ^c   Lizuma, Lita ^c   Sarauskiene, Diana ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN ENERGY INSTITUTE   (Lithuania)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c Latvian Hydrometeorological Agency   (Latvia)

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