Rain-season trends in precipitation and their effect in different climate regions of China during 1961-2008

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Song, Yanling ^a   Achberger, Christine ^b   Linderholm, Hans W ^b  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

China; precipitation; rain season; trend analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053477376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034025     Document Type: Article

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