Climatology of precipitation extremes in Estonia using the method of moving precipitation totals

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 623-639

  Tammets, Tiina ^a   Jaagus, Jaak ^b  

^a Estonian Meteorological and Hydrological Institute   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84873126928     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0691-1     Document Type: Article

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