Climate of the Southeast USA: Past, present, and future

Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts, and Vulnerability

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 8-42

  Konrad, Charles E ^a   Fuhrmann, Christopher M ^a   Billiot, Amanda ^b   Keim, Barry D ^b   Kruk, Michael C ^c   Kunkel, Kenneth E ^d   Needham, Hal ^d   Shafer, Mark ^d   Stevens, Laura ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-509-0_2     Document Type: Chapter

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