Historical analogues of the 2008 extreme snow event over Central and Southern China

Climate Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 161-170

  Hao, Zhixin ^a   Zheng, Jingyun ^a   Ge, Quansheng ^a   Wang, Wei Chyung ^b  

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

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; China; Historical record; Precipitation extremes

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CHINA; DATA SETS; EASTERN CHINA; GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; HEAVY SNOWFALL; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; HUAIHE RIVER; LOW TEMPERATURES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REANALYSIS; SECOND GROUP; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW EVENT; SOUTHERN CHINA; TEMPERATURE REGIMES; YELLOW RIVER;

CLIMATOLOGY;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENT; GEOPOTENTIAL; HISTORICAL RECORD; LOW TEMPERATURE; PALEOCLIMATE; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WINTER;

CHINA;

EID: 84555196677     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01052     Document Type: Article

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