Ranking regional drought events in China for 1960-2009

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 310-321

  Qian, Weihong ^a   Shan, Xiaolong ^a   Zhu, Yafen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

climate extreme index; drought intensity; regional drought event; site drought event

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551673715     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-9239-4     Document Type: Article

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