Flooding 1990s along the Yangtze River, has it concern of global warming?

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-52

  Dao yi, Gong ^a   Jin hong, Zhu ^b   Shao wu, Wang ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

global warming; interdecadal variation; summer rainfall; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746876416     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02837375     Document Type: Article

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