Variations of twentieth-century temperature and precipitation extreme indicators in the northeast United States

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 5401-5417

  Griffiths, Michael L ^a,b   Bradley, Raymond S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); UNITED STATES;

CONSECUTIVE DRY DAYS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EXTREME INDICATORS; FROST DAYS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36348968827     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1594.1     Document Type: Article

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