Climate changes in the Greater and Southern Caribbean

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1093-1114

  Singh, Bhawan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Climate change; Cloudiness; GCM data; Global warming; Rainfall; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING;

CARIBBEAN;

EID: 0031395611     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199708)17:10<1093::AID-JOC187>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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