Trends of calculated and simulated actual evaporation in the Yangtze River Basin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4494-4507

  Wang, Yanjun ^a   Liu, Bo ^b   Su, Buda ^c   Zhai, Jianqing ^c   Gemmer, Marco ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Evaporation; Radiative forcing; Seasonal variability; Trends; Wind

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-ARIDITY MODELS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ASIA; COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LINEAR REGRESSION METHODS; MANN-KENDALL TEST; MAX PLANCK; NET RADIATION; NON-PARAMETRIC; PARAMETER VALIDATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SATURATION VAPOR PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; STEPWISE REGRESSION METHOD; TRENDS; WIND SPEED; YANGTZE RIVER BASIN;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS; WIND EFFECTS;

EVAPORATION;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARIDITY; EVAPORATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NET RADIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; VAPOR PRESSURE; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 80052615473     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3933.1     Document Type: Article

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