Changing features of extreme precipitation in the Yangtze River basin during 1961-2002

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-42

  Zhang, Zengxin ^a,b,c   Zhang, Qiang ^b,c   Jiang, Tong ^b,c  

^a NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform; Extreme precipitation event; Linear trend; Yangtze River basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947324376     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-007-0033-x     Document Type: Article

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