Climate change: Is the hydrological cycle accelerating?

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5597, 2002, Pages 1345-1346

  Ohmura, Atsumu ^a   Wild, Martin ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE;

ACCELERATION; EVAPORATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYDROLOGY; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037112080     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078972     Document Type: Short Survey

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