The influence of recurrent modes of climate variability on the occurrence of winter and summer extreme temperatures over North America

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1600-1618

  Loikith, Paul C ^a   Broccoli, Anthony J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84893821944     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00068.1     Document Type: Article

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