Observed decreases in the Canadian outdoor skating season due to recent winter warming

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Damyanov, Nikolay N ^a   Damon Matthews, H ^a,b   Mysak, Lawrence A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

global warming; impacts; outdoor hockey; skating rinks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859330811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014028     Document Type: Article

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