Assessment of the water supply to Mediterranean heavy precipitation: A method based on finely designed water budgets

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 133-138

  Duffourg, F ^a   Ducrocq, V ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Mediterranean heavy precipitation; Water budgets; Water supply

Indexed keywords

MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WATER SUPPLY;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84880445425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl2.429     Document Type: Article

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