Climatology of winter cold spells in relation to mountain pine beetle mortality in British Columbia, Canada

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-23

  Stahl, K ^a   Moore, R D ^a   McKendry, I G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Arctic Oscillation; British Columbia; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Mountain pine beetle; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Synoptic climatology; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SOFTWOODS; TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BEETLE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL WARMING; MORTALITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; WINTER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 33947313293     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3354/cr032013     Document Type: Article

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