The impact of Oklahoma's winter wheat belt on the mesoscale environment

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 405-421

  McPherson, Renee A ^a   Stensrud, David J ^b   Crawford, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GROWTH KINETICS; HARVESTING; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MESOSCALE ENVIRONMENT; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CLIMATE VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NDVI; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WHEAT; WINTER;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347861440     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0405:TIOOWW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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