Regional climatic warming and associated twentieth century land-cover changes in north-western North America

Climate Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-52

  Skinner, Walter R ^a   Majorowicz, Jacek A ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Northern Geothermal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ground state temperature; Ground temperature logs; North western North America climate anomaly; Surface air temperature; Twentieth century land use and land cover changes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND COVER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033563622     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr012039     Document Type: Article

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