Variations in the summer monsoon rainbands across eastern China over the past 300 years

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 614-620

  Hao, Zhixin ^a   Zheng, Jingyun ^a   Ge, Quansheng ^a  

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

Author keywords

China; Historical documents; Long term variations; Monsoon rainbands

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849130432     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8011-0     Document Type: Article

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