Climate-years in the True Prairie: Temporal fluctuations of ecologically critical climate conditions

Climatic Change

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 101-122

  Kunkel, Kenneth E ^a   Changnon, Stanley A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THUNDERSTORMS;

CROPLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; GRASSLAND; PRAIRIE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0345099610     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026338617893     Document Type: Article

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