Change of cloud amount and the climate warming on the Tibetan Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Duan, Anmin ^a   Wu, Guoxiong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; SOLAR RADIATION;

NOCTURNAL LOW-LEVEL CLOUD; NOCTURNAL SURFACE WARMING; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

GLOBAL WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 34548599711     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027946     Document Type: Article

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