Climatology and Trends of High Temperature Extremes across China in Summer

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 153-158

  Ke, Wei ^a   Wen, Chen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

climate regime; high temperature extremes; hot days; long term trend

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956327110     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2009.11446795     Document Type: Article

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