Responses of desertification to variations in wind activity over the past five decades in arid and semiarid areas in China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 426-433

  Wang, XunMing ^a   Li, JiJun ^b   Dong, GuangRong ^a   Xia, DunSheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arid and semiarid areas in China; Desertification; Over the past five decades; Response; Wind activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049136126     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0100-4     Document Type: Article

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