Structural characteristics of annual precipitation in Lake Urmia basin

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 919-932

  Vaheddoost, Babak ^a   Aksoy, Hafzullah ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; HETEROGENEITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84957940666     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-016-1748-3     Document Type: Article

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