Western Mediterranean precipitation over the last 300 years from instrumental observations

Climatic Change

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 85-101

  Camuffo, D ^a   Bertolin, C ^a   Diodato, N ^b   Cocheo, C ^c   Barriendos, M ^d   Dominguez Castro, F ^e   Garnier, E ^f,g   Alcoforado, M J ^h   Nunes, M F ⁱ  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b MetEROBS Met European Research Observatory   (Italy)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^g Université de Caen Basse Normandie   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATERS;

INSTRUMENTAL PRECIPITATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; RETURN PERIODS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN ITALY; SOUTHERN SPAIN; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SET; INSTRUMENTATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; RETURN PERIOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FRANCE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SPAIN;

EID: 84873740902     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0539-9     Document Type: Article

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