Characteristics of anomalous precipitation events over eastern China during the past five centuries

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-476

  Shen, Caiming ^a   Wang, Wei Chyung ^a   Hao, Zhixin ^a   Gong, Wei ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous precipitation events; Drought; Eastern China; Flood; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DROUGHT; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 47349121100     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0323-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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