Elevation dependency of recent and future minimum surface air temperature trends in the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 164-174

  Liu, Xiaodong ^a,b   Cheng, Zhigang ^a   Yan, Libin ^a   Yin, Zhi Yong ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; elevation dependency; global warming; minimum surface air temperature; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ELEVATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WARMING; WEATHER STATION;

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

EID: 68049094196     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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