Trend of climate variability in China during the past decades

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 503-516

  Liu, Xingcai ^a   Xu, Zongxue ^a   Yu, Ruihong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL MEAN; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LEAST SQUARE METHODS; MANN-KENDALL TEST; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; REGIONAL FEATURE; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; TIME-SCALES; TREND ANALYSIS; UPWARD TREND;

CLIMATOLOGY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LINEARITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

CHINA;

EID: 81555195263     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0097-6     Document Type: Article

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