Spatial and temporal trends of temperature and precipitation during 1960-2008 at the Hengduan Mountains, China

Quaternary International

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 127-142

  Li, Zongxing ^a,b   He, Yuanqing ^a   Wang, Chunfen ^c   Wang, Xufeng ^a,b   Xin, Huijuan ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Cao, Weihong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTUMN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WINTER;

CHINA; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79953677814     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.05.017     Document Type: Article

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