The potential for significant impacts on chesapeake bay from global warming

Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-100

  Kearney, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849772679     Document Type: Chapter

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