Decadal trend of climate in the Tibetan plateau - Regional temperature and precipitation

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3056-3065

  Xu, Zong Xue ^a   Gong, T L ^a,b   Li, J Y ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tibet Autonomous Region   (China)

^c Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Climate change; Precipitation; Tibetan Plateau; Trend

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TEMPERATURE SCALES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PATTERNS; MANN-KENDALL; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSES; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME SCALING; TREND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DECADAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 49249100292     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6892     Document Type: Article

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