Recent trends in land surface temperature on the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2995-3003

  Oku, Yuichiro ^a   Ishikawa, Hirohiko ^a   Haginoya, Shigenori ^b   Ma, Yaoming ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMAL EFFECTS;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NEAR-SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; LAND SURFACE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33745933633     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3811.1     Document Type: Article

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