Trends of maximum and minimum temperatures in Northern South America

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2104-2112

  Quintana Gomez, Ramon A ^a,b  

^a Univ Exp Llanos Ezequiel Zamora   (Venezuela)

^b UNELLEZ   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALEX-ANDERSSON TESTS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES (DTR);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 0032756747     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2104:TOMAMT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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