Temperature variation along the northern and southern slopes of Mt. Taibai, China

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 139, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 200-207

  Tang, Zhiyao ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Altitudinal lapse rate; Annual range of temperature; Diurnal range of temperature; HOBO micrologger

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MOUNTAIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLOPE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINLING MOUNTAINS; SHAANXI; TAIBAI MOUNTAIN;

EID: 33749492782     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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