Precipitation trends during 1961-2010 in the loess plateau region of China

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5512-5523

  Wang, Qixiang ^a   Fan, Xiaohui ^a   Wang, Mengben ^a  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Precipitation; Spatiotemporal change; The loess plateau

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EROSION CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MAGNITUDE; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SLOPE; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 80054964734     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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