An Overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network Temperature Database

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2837-2849

  Peterson, Thomas C ^a   Vose, Russell S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE NETWORK; DATABASE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031400135     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2837:AOOTGH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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