Observed trends in Canada's climate and influence of low-frequency variability modes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4545-4560

  Vincent, Lucie A ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Brown, R D ^a   Feng, Y ^a   Mekis, E ^a   Milewska, E J ^a   Wan, H ^a   Wang, X L ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Oscillations; Snow cover; Surface temperature; Trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SNOW; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; OSCILLATIONS; SNOW COVERS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SNOW COVER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 84938804155     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00697.1     Document Type: Article

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