A historical perspective of U.S. climate divisions

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 293-303

  Guttman, Nathaniel B ^a   Quayle, Robert G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CATEGORIZATION; CLIMATE DIVISION; HISTORICAL DATA; REAL TIME ANALYSIS;

USA;

EID: 0029776241     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0293:AHPOUC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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