@article {746,
	title = {Variability of precipitation pattern in Greece during the year},
	journal = {Fresenius Environmental Bulletin},
	volume = {8},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {1999},
	note = {Fresenius Environ. Bull.Cited By (since 1996):17Export Date: 13 October 2014CODEN: FENBECorrespondence Address: Metaxas, D.A.; Atmosph. Phys./Climatology Res. Ctr., Academy of Athens, Athens, GreeceReferences: Metaxas, D.A., (1978) Arch. Met. Geoph. Biokl., 27, pp. 69-80. , Ser A; Ritchman, M., (1986) J. Climatol., 6, pp. 293-335; Rummel, R.J., (1970) Applied Factor Analysis, 617p. , Northwestern University Press, Evanston; Mahairas, P., (1983) Climatologie de la Mer Egee et de Ses Marges Continentales, , Des Theses, Universite De Lille III; Balafoutis, H., (1991) J. Meteorol., 16 (157), pp. 90-96; Fotiadi, A.K., Metaxas, D.A., Bartzokas, A., (1996) Proceedings of 3rd Hellenic Meteorological-Climatological and Atmospheric Physics Congress, pp. 52-61. , in Athens; Monthly Climatic Bulletin 1951-1988, , and further unpublished data from HNMS; (1962) Weather in the Mediterranean, 1},
	pages = {001-006},
	abstract = {The patterns of monthly precipitation distributions in Greece, during the months of the year, are studied. Using factor analysis T-mode on mean monthly precipitation for a long period, we try to establish characteristic patterns of precipitation distribution. Only two of the eigenvectors (factors) were found statistically significant, namely factor I, explaining 67\% of total variance and referring to the months of the period from October to March (cold period) and factor II, explaining 23\% of total variance and referring to the months from April to September (warm period). During the cold period precipitation is maximum on Western Greek mainland and along the Western Asia Minor coast and islands while minima are shown in Cyclades islands, Attika, Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace. On the other hand, during the warm period precipitation shows maxima in Central and North continental areas and the interior of Peloponese while minima appeared again in Cyclades, Dodecanese and Crete. Finally, the various areas of the country are distributed in 4 categories, depending on the combination of plus or minus of the normalized factor scores, for each period.},
	keywords = {Greece, Precipitation, precipitation assessment, Principal Components Analysis, spatiotemporal analysis},
	isbn = {10184619 (ISSN)},
	author = {Metaxas, D. A. and Philandras, C. M. and Nastos, P. T. and Repapis, C. C.}
}
