Long-Term Climatic Variability in Calabria and Effects on Drought and Agrometeorological Parameters

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 601-617

  Capra, A ^a   Consoli, S ^b   Scicolone, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c Agronomist Consultant   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Precipitation regime; Standardised precipitation index; Thermometric variables

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; PRECIPITATION INDICES; PRECIPITATION REGIMES; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; STATISTICAL TREND ANALYSIS; THERMOMETRIC VARIABLES; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 84871715556     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0204-0     Document Type: Article

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