Global rural temperature trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 329-332

  Peterson, Thomas C ^a,e   Gallo, Kevin P ^a,e   Lawrimore, Jay ^a,e   Owen, Timothy W ^a,e   Huang, Alex ^b   McKittrick, David A ^c,d  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

^c Orkand Corporation   (United States)

^d Delorme Mapping   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; RURAL STATIONS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; URBAN WARMING; URBAN LAND SURFACE CLASSIFICATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; RURAL AREA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 0033083998     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900322     Document Type: Article

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