Summer heat waves over western Turkey between 1965 and 2006

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 339-350

  Unal, Yurdanur Sezginer ^a   Tan, Elcin ^a   Mentes, S Sibel ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER;

BLACK SEA COAST [TURKEY]; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84875382140     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0704-0     Document Type: Article

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