An Inconvenient Truth: A focus on its portrayal of the hydrologic cycle

GeoJournal

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-19

  Legates, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

An Inconvenient Truth; Climate change; Droughts; Floods; Hydrologic cycle; Precipitation; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOODS; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS; TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; STORMINESS; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 41549096718     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-008-9125-0     Document Type: Review

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