Temporal variation of wind speed in China for 1961-2007

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 313-324

  Fu, Guobin ^a,b   Yu, Jingjie ^a   Zhang, Yichi ^a   Hu, Shanshan ^a,c   Ouyang, Rulin ^a   Liu, Wenbin ^a,c  

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

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECADAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79957486798     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0348-x     Document Type: Article

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