Climatic trends in major U.S. urban areas, 1950-2009

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Mishra, Vimal ^a   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATIC INDEX; CLIMATIC TRENDS; COOLING DEGREE-DAYS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; LOCAL EFFECTS; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; URBAN AREAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DIURNAL VARIATION; HEATING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051713745     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048255     Document Type: Article

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