Historical and projected climate data for natural resource management in western Canada

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 881-890

  Mbogga, Michael S ^a   Hamann, Andreas ^a   Wang, Tongli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Climate normals; Historical climate data; Interpolation; PRISM

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GROWING SEASON; HISTORY; INTERPOLATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 59349113920     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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