Spatio-temporal patterns of recent and future climate extremes in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1565-1577

  Kostopoulou, E ^a   Giannakopoulos, C ^b   Hatzaki, M ^b   Karali, A ^b   Hadjinicolaou, P ^c   Lelieveld, J ^c   Lange, M A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; BALKANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY;

EID: 84903209591     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-1565-2014     Document Type: Article

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