Trends of temperature extremes in China and their relationship with global temperature anomalies

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 937-946

  Huang, Danqing ^a   Qian, Yongfu ^a   Zhu, Jian ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Daily threshold; Global temperature anomalies; Temperature extremes; Trend

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953921381     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-9085-4     Document Type: Article

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