1876-1878 severe drought in North China: Facts, impacts and climatic background

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 3001-3007

  Hao, Zhi Xin ^a   Zheng, Jing Yun ^a   Wu, Guo Feng ^a,b   Zhang, Xue Zhen ^a   Ge, Quan Sheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

1876 1878; climatic background; North China; severe drought; social impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957168181     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-3243-z     Document Type: Article

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