Long-term climate patterns in Alaskan surface temperature and precipitation and their biological consequences

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1164-1184

  Simpson, James J ^a   Hufford, Gary L ^b   Fleming, Michael D ^c   Berg, Jared S ^a   Ashton, Justin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic climate; Arctic hydrology; Arctic oscillation; Boreal forest; Climographs; El Ni o southern oscillation (ENSO); Pacific decadal oscillation; Precipitation; Surface temperature; Tundra

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; OSCILLATIONS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE PATTERNS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0036563780     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.1010902     Document Type: Article

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