Dimming/brightening in Athens: Trends in Sunshine Duration, Cloud Cover and Reference Evapotranspiration

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1623-1633

  Kitsara, Gianna ^a   Papaioannou, Georgia ^a   Papathanasiou, Athanasios ^a   Retalis, Adrianos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloudiness; Dimming brightening; Evapotranspiration; Sunshine duration

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATIC VARIABLES; CLOUDINESS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIATIONS; GLOBAL DIMMING/BRIGHTENING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SUNSHINE DURATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

CLOUD COVER; DECADAL VARIATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84875001787     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0229-4     Document Type: Article

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