Recent climate change in Japan - spatial and temporal characteristics of trends of temperature

Climate of the Past

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-19

  Schaefer, D ^a   Domroes, M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING; WEATHER STATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 77949556623     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-5-13-2009     Document Type: Article

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