United States' Interannual precipitation variability over the past century: Is variability increasing as predicted by models?

Physical Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 307-318

  Svoma, Bohumil ^a   Balling, Robert ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957553854     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.31.4.307     Document Type: Article

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