Trends in winter extreme minimum temperatures on the Canadian prairies

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 233-239

  Lawson, Bevan D ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WINTER;

CANADA;

EID: 0242541828     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.410304     Document Type: Article

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