Long-term trends in sunshine duration over Yunnan-Guizhou Plateu in Southwest China for 1961-2005

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Zheng, Xiaobo ^a   Kang, Weimin ^a   Zhao, Tianliang ^b   Luo, Yuxiang ^a   Duan, Changchun ^c   Chen, Juan ^a  

^a Guizhou Institute of Mountainous Environment and Climate   (China)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Yunnan Institute of Environmental Science   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING;

20TH CENTURY; 21ST CENTURY; AEROSOL LOADING; ANNUAL MEAN; CLOUD AMOUNT; GUIZHOU; LONG-TERM TRENDS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOUTHWEST CHINA; SUNSHINE DUR ATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; SURFACE COOLING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

COOLING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; YUNNAN;

EID: 53749089276     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034482     Document Type: Article

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