Factors contributing to diurnal temperature range trends in twentieth and twenty-first century simulations of the CCCma coupled model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 435-445

  Stone, D A ^a   Weaver, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037654727     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-002-0288-y     Document Type: Article

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