Changes of climate extremes in a typical arid zone: Observations and multimodel ensemble projections

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Tao ^a,b   Wang, Xiaoyan ^b   Zhao, Chenyi ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Yu, Zhongbo ^c   Shao, Quanxi ^d   Xu, Chong Yu ^e   Xia, Jun ^f   Wang, Weiguang ^b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DROUGHT; LANDFORMS; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

ARID ZONES; BAYESIAN MODEL; CENTRAL ASIA; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DESERT ZONES; ECO-ENVIRONMENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME TEMPERATURE INDICES; IN-PHASE; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; POLICY MAKERS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; TARIM RIVER BASIN; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WARM NIGHTS;

ARID REGIONS;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DESERT; DROUGHT; FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLICY MAKING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 80054017219     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015192     Document Type: Article

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