Twentieth-century trends in the thermal growing season in the Greater Baltic Area

Climatic Change

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 405-419

  Linderholm, Hans W ^a,b   Walther, Alexander ^a   Chen, Deliang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; THERMAL GROWING SEASON;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; PHENOLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARKHANGELSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC REGION; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 41049106956     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9327-3     Document Type: Article

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