Intensified reduction in summertime light rainfall over mountains compared with plains in Eastern China: A letter

Climatic Change

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 807-815

  Yang, Jing ^a   Gong, Dao Yi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR STABILITY; DAILY RAINFALL; EAST CHINA; EASTERN CHINA; INDIRECT EFFECTS; RAINFALL FREQUENCY; RAINFALL TRENDS; WIND SPEED;

AIR QUALITY; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 77953023786     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9863-0     Document Type: Letter

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