Anomalous ground warming versus surface air warming in the Canadian Praire provinces

Climatic Change

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 485-500

  Majorowicz, Jacek A ^a   Skinner, Walter R ^b  

^a Northern Geothermal   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELLING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING EFFECT;

CANADA, PRAIRIES;

EID: 0030619729     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005394616350     Document Type: Article

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