Changes in daily climate extremes in China and their connection to the large scale atmospheric circulation during 1961-2003

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2399-2417

  You, Qinglong ^a,b,f   Kang, Shichang ^a   Aguilar, Enric ^c   Pepin, Nick ^d   Flugel, Wolfgang Albert ^b   Yan, Yuping ^e   Xu, Yanwei ^a,f   Zhang, Yongjun ^a   Huang, Jie ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; China; Climate extremes

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; EURASIA; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 79957876259     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0735-0     Document Type: Article

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