Interdecadal trend turning of global terrestrial temperature and precipitation during 1951-2002

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1383-1393

  Shi, Xiaohui ^a   Xu, Xiangde ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Global terrene; Interdecadal trend turning; Precipitation; Surface air temperature

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

'DRY' [; ANNUAL MEAN; BREAKPOINT; GLOBAL TERRENE; INTERDECADAL; INTERDECADAL TREND TURNING; LINEAR TRENDS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TIME TRENDS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 56849119097     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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