Is it a global change impact that the climate is becoming better in the western part of the arid region of China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 139-150

  Du, M Y ^a  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; PRECIPITATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0030390433     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00864709     Document Type: Article

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