New proofs of the recent climate warming over the Tibetan Plateau as a result of the increasing greenhouse gases emissions

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1396-1400

  Duan, Anmin ^a   Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Zhang, Qiong ^a   Liu, Yimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Diurnal range of air temperature; Greenhouse effect; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748935766     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-1396-6     Document Type: Article

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