The warming of Lake Tahoe

Climatic Change

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 121-148

  Coats, Robert ^a   Perez Losada, Joaquim ^b   Schladow, Geoffrey ^c   Richards, Robert ^d   Goldman, Charles ^d  

^a Hydroikos Ltd   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKES; MIXING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; STEP-WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; WEIGHTED MEAN TEMPERATURE;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMOCLINE;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE TAHOE; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744958034     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-9006-1     Document Type: Article

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