Predicting climate variations in the American West: What are our prospects?

Water and climate: In the Western United States

Volumn 9780870817533, Issue , 2006, Pages 9-28

  Dole, Randall M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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