Climate lessons from the first International Polar Year

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1685-1697

  Wood, Kevin R ^a   Overland, James E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICS; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE WARMING; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 33846527290     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-12-1685     Document Type: Article

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