Changes of characteristics of daily precipitation and runoff in the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakiaover the last fifty years

Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 157-177

  Bičárová, Svetlana ^a   Holko, Ladislav ^b  

^a Geophysical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Daily precipitation; Daily runoff; Mountains; Time series analysis; Wet and dry periods

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; FLOW MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

CARPATHIANS; SLOVAKIA; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84888789947     PISSN: 13352806     EISSN: 13380540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/congeo-2013-0010     Document Type: Article

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