Recent trends in seasonal and annual precipitation indices in Tuscany (Italy)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 147-157

  Bartolini, Giorgio ^a   Messeri, Alessandro ^b   Grifoni, Daniele ^a,c   Mannini, Daniele ^b   Orlandini, Simone ^b  

^a LaMMA Consortium   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 84958052181     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-1053-3     Document Type: Article

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