Watershed-wide trend analysis of temperature characteristics in Karun-Dez watershed, southwestern Iran

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 311-320

  Marofi, Safar ^a   Soleymani, Samere ^a   Salarijazi, Meysam ^b   Marofi, Hossein ^a  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

DEZ RIVER; IRAN; KARUN RIVER; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84867099724     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0662-6     Document Type: Article

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