Spatio-temporal patterns of precipitation in Serbia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 117, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 419-431

  Gocic, Milan ^a   Trajkovic, Slavisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

SERBIA;

EID: 84904538252     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-1017-7     Document Type: Article

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