Projected temperature changes along the American cordillera and the planned GCOS network

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Bradley, Raymond S ^a   Keimig, Frank T ^a   Diaz, Henry F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACES; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPOSPHERE;

AMERICAL CORDILLERA; METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; ELEVATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 7044264947     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020229     Document Type: Article

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