Spatiotemporal variability of drought on a short-medium time scale in the Calabria Region (Southern Italy)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 471-488

  Capra, Antonina ^a   Scicolone, Baldassare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 84870296742     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0720-0     Document Type: Article

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