Contents Notes |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Atmosphere -- Atmospheric Observations: An Essay / Thomas R. Karl. Documenting Natural Climatic Variations: How Different is the Climate of the Twentieth Century from That of Previous Centuries? / Henry F. Diaz and Raymond S. Bradley. Variability of African Rainfall on Interannual and Decadal Time Scales / Sharon E. Nicholson. On the Initiation and Persistence of the Sahel Drought / Jagadish Shukla. Continental Snow Cover and Climate Variability / John E. Walsh. Decadal Variations of Snow Cover / David A. Robinson. Variability and Trends of Precipitation and Snowfall over North America / Pavel Ya. Groisman and David R. Easterling. Asymmetric Trends of Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature: Empirical Evidence and Possible Causes / Thomas R. Karl, Philip D. Jones, Richard W. Knight, George Kukla, Neil Plummer, Vyacheslav Razuvayev, Kevin P. Gallo, Janette A. Lindesay and Robert J. Charlson. |