Climatic changes in Finland - Recent findings

Geophysica

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 61-75

  Tuomenvirta, Heikki ^a   Heino, Raino ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; Finnish climate; Temperature, snow, and precipitation changes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION; SNOW; TEMPERATURE;

FINLAND;

EID: 0030364457     PISSN: 03674231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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