Climate variability and climate change

Climate Variations, Climate Change, and Water Resources Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-18

  Piechota, T C ^a   Garbrecht, J D ^b   Schneider, J M ^b  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

^b USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84985989144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784408247.ch01     Document Type: Chapter

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