Warming in the Tibetan Plateau: Possible influences of the changes in surface water vapor

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Rangwala, Imtiaz ^a   Miller, James R ^a   Xu, Ming ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL WARMING; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE HUMIDITY; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WINTER MONTHS;

MOISTURE; SURFACE WATERS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 66949114545     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037245     Document Type: Article

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