Soil temperatures at Armagh Observatory, northern Ireland, from 1904 to 2002

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1075-1089

  Garcia Suarez A M ^a   Butler, C J ^a  

^a ARMAGH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Earth temperature; Northern Ireland; Palmer drought severity index; Rainfall; Soil moisture; Soil temperature; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

MEAN AIR TEMPERATURE; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

ARMAGH; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745624576     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1294     Document Type: Article

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