Trends in rainfall regime over Israel, 1975–2010, and their relationship to large-scale variability

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1751-1764

  Ziv, Baruch ^a   Saaroni, Hadas ^b   Pargament, Roee ^b   Harpaz, Tzvi ^a,b   Alpert, Pinhas ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatic variations; Cyprus low; Large scale oscillations; Mediterranean; Spatial and temporal variations; Trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907698286     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0414-x     Document Type: Article

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