Summer Circulation Climate of the American Southwest, 1945-1984

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 619-634

  Carleton, Andrew M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; Southwest U.S; synoptic climatology; synoptic typing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948513946     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1987.tb00184.x     Document Type: Article

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