Characteristics of the dry/wet trend over arid central Asia over the past 100 years

Climate Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-59

  Wang, Jinsong ^a   Chen, Fahu ^b   Jin, Liya ^b   Bai, Huzhi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arid central Asia; Drought index; Dry wet trend

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARID CLIMATES; CASPIAN SEA; CENTRAL ASIA; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DROUGHT INDICES; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS; HIGH LATITUDES; KAZAKHSTAN; MONGOLIA; NORTHEAST CHINA; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION DATA; TEMPORAL SCALE; TURKMENISTAN; UZBEKISTAN; WET-DRY CYCLE; XINJIANG;

DROUGHT;

TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARID REGION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EVAPORATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 77954112499     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00837     Document Type: Article

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