Consensus clustering of U.S. temperature and precipitation data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1405-1427

  Fovell, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE;

USA;

EID: 0031402638     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1405:CCOUST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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