Variations and trends of onset, cessation and length of climatic growing season over Xinjiang, NW China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 449-458

  Jiang, Feng qing ^a   Hu, Ru ji ^a   Zhang, Yan wei ^a   Li, Xue mei ^a   Tong, Li ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AUTUMN; CLIMATOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 81155137834     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0445-5     Document Type: Article

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