Changes of daily climate extremes in southwestern China during 1961-2008

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 80-81, Issue , 2012, Pages 255-272

  Zongxing, Li ^a,b   He, Yuanqing ^a   Wang, Puyu ^a,b   Theakstone, Wilfred H ^d   An, Wenling ^a,b   Wang, Xufeng ^a,b   Lu, Aigang ^c   Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Cao, Weihong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c WEINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Climate extremes; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; CHINA; CLIMATE EXTREMES; CLIMATE INDEX; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; FROST DAYS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GROWING SEASON LENGTHS; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; INTERANNUAL; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; RAINY DAYS; REGIONAL TRENDS; SICHUAN BASIN; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; TEMPERATURE INDEX; TEMPORAL CHANGE; VAPOR TRANSPORTATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AALENIAN; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; GEOPOTENTIAL; GROWING SEASON; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

CHINA;

EID: 83855164129     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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