A spatiotemporal analysis of Midwest US temperature and precipitation trends during the growing season from 1980 to 2013

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 517-525

  Dai, Shuwei ^a   Shulski, Martha D ^a   Hubbard, Kenneth G ^a   Takle, Eugene S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decadal trends; Growing season; Midwest United States; Temperature and precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

DECADAL TRENDS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; GROWING SEASON; MIDWEST UNITED STATES; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGRICULTURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84958059215     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4354     Document Type: Article

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