Land-atmosphere coupling amplifies hot extremes over China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 3328-3332

  Zhang, Jing Yong ^a   Wu, Ling Yun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

hot extremes; land atmosphere coupling; regional climate modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255137192     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4628-3     Document Type: Article

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