Long-term observations for monitoring extremes in the Americas

Climatic Change

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 285-308

  Easterling, David R ^a   Diaz, Henry F ^b   Douglas, Arthur V ^c   Hogg, William D ^d   Kunkel, Kenneth E ^e   Rogers, Jeffry C ^f   Wilkinson, Jaime F ^g  

^a NOAA/NESDIS/Natl Climat Data Ctr   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Ministerio de Defensa Republica Argentina   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; MONITORING; TEMPERATURE;

ARGENTINA; MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032806573     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005484820026     Document Type: Article

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