Atmospheric circulation types and winter daily precipitation in Iran

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2232-2246

  Raziei, Tayeb ^a,b   Bordi, Isabella ^c   Santos, João A ^d   Mofidi, Abbas ^e  

^a SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^e FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

APHRODITE; Circulation types; Iran; Performance index; Precipitation; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

APHRODITE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION TYPES; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; IRAN; K-MEANS CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE INDICES; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; ROTATED PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WINTER;

IRAN;

EID: 84879600919     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3596     Document Type: Article

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