Long-range correlations in daily relative humidity fluctuations: A new index to characterize the climate regions over China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Xi ^a   Lin, Guangxing ^a   Fu, Zuntao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE REGIONS; DAILY RELATIVE HUMIDITY FLUCTUATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CORRELATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34250728628     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027755     Document Type: Article

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