Drought in late spring of South China in recent decades

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3197-3206

  Xin, Xiaoge ^a   Yu, Rucong ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Wang, Bin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ANOMALOUS MERIDIONAL CELL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COOLING; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPRING (SEASON);

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33746854255     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3794.1     Document Type: Article

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