Indices of climate change for the United States

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-292

  Karl, Thomas R ^a   Knight, Richard W ^a   Easterling, David R ^a   Quayle, Robert G ^a  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE INDEX; CLIMATE EXTREMES INDEX; GCRI; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION;

USA;

EID: 0030456161     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0279:IOCCFT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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