Changes of temperature extremes for 1960-2004 in Far-West China

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 721-735

  Zhang, Qiang ^a,b   Xu, Chong Yu ^c   Zhang, Zengxin ^d   Chen, Yongqin David ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FW China; Linear regression; Mann Kendall trend; Temperature extremes

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; FW CHINA; LINEAR REGRESSION METHODS; MANN-KENDALL TEST; MANN-KENDALL TREND; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; RESEARCH RESULTS; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; TEMPORAL PATTERN; WARMING PROCESS; WEST CHINA;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67649601177     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-008-0252-4     Document Type: Article

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