Lessons from the unusual impacts of an abnormal winter in the USA

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-191

  Changnon, Stanley A ^a   Changnon, David ^b  

^a Changnon Climatologist   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; SALES; SNOW;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; RETAIL SALES; TERRORIST ATTACKS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COLD WAVE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SNOW; WINTER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 27644476656     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482705001738     Document Type: Article

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