Atmospheric moisture budget and floods in the Yangtze River basin, China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 331-340

  Zhang, Zengxin ^a,b,c,d,e   Zhang, Qiang ^a,d,e   Xu, Chongyu ^f   Liu, Chunling ^d   Jiang, Tong ^a,e  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; SUMMER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 62249088707     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0010-z     Document Type: Article

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