Climate change velocity underestimates climate change exposure in mountainous regions

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Dobrowski, Solomon Z ^a   Parks, Sean A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; NORTH AMERICA; VELOCITY;

EID: 85022143150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12349     Document Type: Article

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