Extreme cold winter events in southern China during AD 1650-2000

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Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Zheng, Jingyun ^a   Ding, Lingling ^a,b   Hao, Zhixin ^a   Ge, Quansheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE STORM; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SNOW; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEATHER STATION; WINTER;

CHINA;

EID: 83955161745     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00225.x     Document Type: Review

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