Relationship between temperature trend magnitude, elevation and mean temperature in the Tibetan Plateau from homogenized surface stations and reanalysis data

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 124-133

  You, Qinglong ^a,b,e   Kang, Shichang ^a   Pepin, Nick ^c   Flügel, Wolfgang Albert ^b   Yan, Yuping ^d   Behrawan, Houshang ^b   Huang, Jie ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

elevation dependency; reanalysis; Tibetan Plateau; warming trend

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; ELEVATION; ICE CORE; PLATEAU; WARMING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77249126376     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.01.020     Document Type: Article

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