Impacts of an extreme early-season freeze event in the interior Pacific Northwest (30 October-3 November 2002) on Western Juniper Woodlands

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1152-1158

  Knapp, Paul A ^a,b   Soulé, Peter T ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^c APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SOFTWOODS; WIND EFFECTS;

CLIMATIC STRESS; EXTREME EARLY SEASON FREEZE EVENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

COLD TOLERANCE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORTALITY;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CLIMATES; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST CANOPY; JUNIPERUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 24644454417     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2261.1     Document Type: Article

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