Heat and cold waves trends in the Carpathian Region from 1961 to 2010

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4197-4209

  Spinoni, Jonathan ^a   Lakatos, Monika ^b   Szentimrey, Tamás ^b   Bihari, Zita ^b   Szalai, Sandor ^c   Vogt, Jürgen ^a   Antofie, Tiberiu ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Climate extremes; Cold wave; Heat wave; Trends

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CARPATHIANS; CLIMATE EXTREMES; COLD WAVES; HEAT WAVES; TRENDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CARPATHIANS;

EID: 84957965743     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4279     Document Type: Article

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