Recent and future climate change in northwest China

Climatic Change

Volumn 80, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 379-393

  Shi, Yafeng ^a,d   Shen, Yongping ^a   Kang, Ersi ^a   Li, Dongliang ^a   Ding, Yongjian ^a   Zhang, Guowei ^b   Hu, Ruji ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Xinjiang Bureau of Hydrology and Water Resources   (China)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; FLOODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION; WATER;

FLOOD DISASTERS; GLACIAL MELT WATER; WATER CYCLE;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAKE LEVEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 33846565780     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9121-7     Document Type: Article

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