Climate issues on aridity trends of southern Oltenia in the last five decades

Geographia Technica

Volumn , Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-79

  Prǎvǎlie, Remus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Aridity indexes; Aridization; Climate changes; Southern Oltenia

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TREND ANALYSIS;

OLTENIA; ROMANIA;

EID: 84882568866     PISSN: 18425135     EISSN: 20654421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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