Trends in temperature and precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau, 1961-2005

Climate Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 179-190

  Lu, Heli ^a,b   Liu, Guifang ^a  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basic characteristics; Climatic zones; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; BASIC CHARACTERISTICS; CLIMATIC ZONE; DIFFERENT CLIMATIC ZONES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION CYCLES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPRING-IN; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; WETTING;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATIC REGION; FUTURE PROSPECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78649829949     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00909     Document Type: Article

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