Hydroclimatic trends and possible climatic warming in the Canadian Prairies

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3009-3015

  Gan, Thian Yew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

CANADA; PRAIRIES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER RESOURCES;

CANADIAN PRAIRIE; CLIMATIC WARMING; DROUGHT DURATION; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION DATA; TEMPERATURE DATA; WEATHER STATIONS;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 85038545539     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR01265     Document Type: Article

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