Dynamics of late spring rainfall reduction in recent decades over Southeastern China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2240-2247

  Qiu, Yun ^a   Cai, Wenju ^b   Guo, Xiaogang ^a   Pan, Aijun ^a  

^a SOA Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIAN OCEAN; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; RAINFALL DECLINE; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEASTERN CHINA; WESTERN PACIFIC;

DYNAMICS; LANTHANUM; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTICYCLONE; EL NINO; LA NINA; RAINFALL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPRING (SEASON);

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 66849142311     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2809.1     Document Type: Article

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