Analysis of the extraordinary 2011/2012 drought in Croatia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 503-522

  Cindrić, Ksenija ^a   Telišman Prtenjak, Maja ^b   Herceg Bulić, Ivana ^b   Mihajlović, Domagoj ^a   Pasarić, Zoran ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CROATIA;

EID: 84955633432     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-014-1368-8     Document Type: Article

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