Snowfall trends and variability in Qinghai, China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 98, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 251-258

  Ke, Chang Qing ^a   Yu, Ting ^a   Yu, Kan ^a   Tang, Guo Dong ^a,b   King, Lorenz ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai World Union Real Estate Consultancy Ltd   (China)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; DELINGHA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GONGHE BASIN; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI;

EID: 69949099086     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0105-1     Document Type: Article

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