Temporal and spatial changes of the agroclimate in Alberta, Canada, from 1901 to 2002

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1090-1105

  Shen, Samuel S P ^a   Yin, H ^a   Cannon, K ^b   Howard, A ^b   Chetner, S ^b   Karl, T R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGROCLIMATE; CORN; LINEAR REGRESSION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE; GROWING SEASON; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 24644505425     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2251.1     Document Type: Article

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