Arctic Oscillation influence on daily temperature variance in winter over China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 637-642

  Gong, Daoyi ^a   Wang, Shaowu ^b   Zhu, Jinhong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; China; Daily mean temperature; Extremes; Siberian High; Variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33044501701     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03wd0481     Document Type: Article

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