Climatic change on the Tibetan Plateau: Potential evapotranspiration trends from 1961-2000

Climatic Change

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 291-319

  Shenbin, Chen ^a   Yunfeng, Liu ^a   Thomas, Axel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MONSOON CIRCULATION; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PLATEAU; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

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

EID: 33746206446     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9080-z     Document Type: Article

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