Enhanced climate change and its detection over the rocky mountains

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 230-243

  Fyfe, John C ^a,b   Flato, Gregory M ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

GREENHOUSE GASES (GHG); SURFACE ALBEDO;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DETECTION METHOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELING; MOUNTAIN REGION;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033048864     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-12.1.230     Document Type: Article

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