El Niño stills winter winds across the southern Canadian Prairies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  St George, Scott ^a,b   Wolfe, Stephen A ^a,c,d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN PRAIRIE; EXPECTED ENERGY; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; NEGATIVE-U; NORTH AMERICAN; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND ENERGY; WIND ENERGY PRODUCTION; WIND EVENTS; WIND SPEED;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

WIND POWER;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO; PRAIRIE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 72049133394     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041282     Document Type: Article

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