The statistical significance test of regional climate change caused by land use and land cover variation in West China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 355-364

  Wang, Hanjie ^a   Shi, Weilai ^b   Chen, Xiaohong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Anhui Institute of Meteorological Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian monsoon; LULC variation; Regional climate simulation; Statistical t test; West Development Policy of China

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646833206     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-006-0355-0     Document Type: Article

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