Using climate divisions to analyze variations and trends in Alaska temperature and precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2800-2818

  Bieniek, Peter A ^a   Walsh, John E ^a   Thoman, Richard L ^b   Bhatt, Uma S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL TRENDS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; REGIONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL COHERENCE; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL PATTERN; TREND ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84898031467     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00342.1     Document Type: Article

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