Spatiotemporal change in China's climatic growing season: 1955-2000

Climatic Change

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-118

  Liu, Binhui ^a   Henderson, Mark ^b   Zhang, Yandong ^a   Xu, Ming ^c,d  

^a NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MILLS COLLEGE   (United States)

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

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC REGIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL PATTERNS; GROWING SEASON; GROWING SEASON LENGTHS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; NORTHERN REGIONS; SOUTHWEST CHINA; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TIME MEASUREMENT;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWING SEASON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA;

EID: 77149125235     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9662-7     Document Type: Article

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