Climate variability and projected change in the western United States: Regional downscaling and drought statistics

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 835-849

  Gutzler, David S ^a   Robbins, Tessia O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT; GEOSTATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052272312     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0838-7     Document Type: Article

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