Teleconnection-extreme precipitation relationships over the Mediterranean region

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 117, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 679-692

  Krichak, Simon O ^a   Breitgand, Joseph S ^a   Gualdi, Silvio ^b   Feldstein, Steven B ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TELECONNECTION; TIME SERIES; TROPOPAUSE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 84904643104     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-1036-4     Document Type: Article

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