Applied climate-change analysis: The climate Wizard tool

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Girvetz, Evan H ^a,b   Zganjar, Chris ^b   Raber, George T ^c   Maurer, Edwin P ^d   Kareiva, Peter ^b   Lawler, Joshua J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^d Santa Clara University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDE; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEB BROWSER;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERNET; NORTH AMERICA; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77954047733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008320     Document Type: Article

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