Decadal climatic variability, trends, and future scenarios for the North China plain

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2111-2123

  Fu, Guobin ^a   Charles, Stephen P ^a   Yu, Jingjie ^b   Liu, Changming ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; FUTURE CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; URBAN COMMUNITY; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STREAMFLOW; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 66849138546     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2605.1     Document Type: Article

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