Climate extreme and its linkage to regional drought over Idaho, USA

Natural Hazards

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 653-681

  Sohrabi, Mohammad M ^a   Ryu, Jae H ^a   Abatzoglou, John ^a   Tracy, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate extreme; Climatic indices; Drought

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TELECONNECTION;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870836432     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0384-1     Document Type: Article

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