An assessment of changes in winter cold and warm spells over Canada

Natural Hazards

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-188

  Shabbar, Amir ^a   Bonsal, Barrie ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Climate change; Cold spell trend; Exponential distribution; Kendall's tau; Poisson distribution; Warm spell trend

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; SEVERE WEATHER;

CANADA;

EID: 0038345071     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023639209987     Document Type: Article

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