Spatiotemporal precipitation variations in the arid Central Asia in the context of global warming

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1812-1821

  Chen, FaHu ^a   Huang, Wei ^a   Jin, LiYa ^a   Chen, JianHui ^a   Wang, JinSong ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

annual and seasonal precipitation; arid Central Asia; changing tendency; regional difference

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CENTRAL ASIA; CHANGING TENDENCY; CLIMATIC RESEARCH; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; KAZAKHSTAN; KYRGYZSTAN; LONG-TERM TREND; MAJOR FACTORS; PLATEAU REGION; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; REGIONAL DIFFERENCE; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

ARID REGIONS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WESTERLY;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 82955175410     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4333-8     Document Type: Article

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