Climatic change of sunshine duration and its influencing factors over Tibet during the last 35 years

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 492-500

  Du, Jun ^a   Bian, Duo ^b   Hu, Jun ^c   Liao, Jian ^d   Zhou, Mingjun ^d  

^a Tibet Climate Center   (China)

^b Tibet Institute of Plateau Atmospheric and Environmental Science Research   (China)

^c Meteorological Bureau of Lhasa   (China)

^d Tibet Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Anomalous years; Cloudiness; Linear trend; Sunshine duration; Surface vapor pressure; Tibet

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREND ANALYSIS; VAPOR PRESSURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NGARI; XIZANG;

EID: 34548077539     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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