On rising temperature trends of Karachi in Pakistan

Climatic Change

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 539-547

  Sajjad, S H ^a,b   Hussain, Babar ^b   Ahmed Khan, M ^b   Raza, Asif ^c   Zaman, B ^b   Ahmed, Ijaz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

^c PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^d Islamia College Civil Line   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; PAKISTAN; RISING TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TIME PERIODS; TIME-SERIES DATA;

THERMAL EFFECTS;

TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIME SERIES; VULNERABILITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; KARACHI; PAKISTAN; SIND; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 71349087356     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9598-y     Document Type: Article

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