The interannual variability of summer rainfall in the arid and semiarid regions of Northern China and its association with the northern hemisphere circumglobal teleconnection

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 257-268

  Huang, Gang ^a   Liu, Yong ^a,b   Huang, Ronghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

arid; circumglobal teleconnection; interannual variability; rotated empirical orthogonal function analysis; semiarid

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551678954     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-9225-x     Document Type: Article

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