Yangtze Delta floods and droughts of the last millennium: Abrupt changes and long term memory

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 131-141

  Jiang, Tong ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Blender, Richard ^b   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FLOOD;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; YANGTZE DELTA;

ARIDA;

EID: 24144495185     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-005-0125-4     Document Type: Article

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