Trends in extreme U.S. temperatures

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4209-4225

  Lee, Jaechoul ^a   Li, Shanghong ^b   Lund, Robert ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

GENERAL STRUCTURES; MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; REGULARITY CONDITION; SPATIAL SMOOTHING; STATIONARY TIME SERIES; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

TIME SERIES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901824608     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00283.1     Document Type: Article

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