Locally downscaled and spatially customizable climate data for historical and future periods for North America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Tongli ^a   Hamann, Andreas ^b   Spittlehouse, Dave ^c   Carroll, Carlos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^d Klamath Center for Conservation Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MANAGER; MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; SCIENTIST; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER; HISTORY; SOFTWARE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84974849166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156720     Document Type: Article

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