Patterns of climate change across Wisconsin from 1950 to 2006

Physical Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-28

  Kucharik, Christopher ^a   Serbin, Shawn ^a   Vavrus, Steve ^a   Hopkins, Edward ^a   Motew, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Growing season; Tension Zone; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GROWING SEASON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77950176442     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.31.1.1     Document Type: Article

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