Adverse-weather trends in the Canadian Arctic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3140-3156

  Hanesiak, John M ^a   Wang, Xiaolan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STORMS;

ADVERSE WEATHER TRENDS; REGRESSION BASED TREND ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 26844439925     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3505.1     Document Type: Article

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