Historical changes in lake ice-out dates as indicators of climate change in New England, 1850-2000

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1819-1827

  Hodgkins, Glenn A ^a   James, Ivan C ^a,b   Huntington, Thomas G ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Lake ice break up; Lake ice out dates; LOESS; Mann Kendall; New England; Temperature; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE BREAKUP; LAKE; SPRING (SEASON);

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036953257     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.857     Document Type: Article

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