Trends and variability in extreme precipitation indices over maghreb countries

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3235-3248

  Tramblay, Y ^a   El Adlouni, S ^b   Servat, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ALGERIA; MAGHREB; MOROCCO; TUNISIA;

EID: 84890481835     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-3235-2013     Document Type: Article

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