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AN: B31A-08    [Abstracts]
TI: Identifying Western Montana Climate Trends using 50 years of Temperature and Precipitation records for applications in ecosystem process models such as Biome-BGC.
AU: * Holbrook, S L
EM: saxon@ntsg.umt.edu
AF: University of Montana, NTSG, College of Forestry University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, United States
AU: Heinsch, F
EM: faithann@ntsg.umt.edu
AF: University of Montana, NTSG, College of Forestry University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, United States
AU: Running, S W
EM: swr@ntsg.umt.edu
AF: University of Montana, NTSG, College of Forestry University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, United States
AB: It's increasingly clear that Global Climate change will affect regions of the earth in different ways. This study examines meteorological station records from the National Climatic Data Center for selected Western Montana Stations in order to identify yearly and seasonal temperature, precipitation, snow pack and hydrologic trends over the last 50 years. Once identified, these trends are used to make projections for the next 50 years which can be used to drive regionally applicable ecosystem process models such as Biome-BGC.
UR: http:climate.ntsg.umt.edu/mtclimate/multi-city.htm
DE: 0429 Climate dynamics (1620)
DE: 0434 Data sets
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly