Change-points in climate extremes in the Zhujiang River Basin, South China, 1961-2007

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 783-799

  Fischer, Thomas ^a,b   Gemmer, Marco ^a   Liu, Lüliu ^a   Su, Buda ^a,c  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CHANGE-POINTS; COASTAL AREA; CUSUM TEST; DATA COVER; DATA QUALITY; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; EXTREME EVENTS; LARGE-SCALE OSCILLATION; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; RIVER BASINS; SOUTH CHINA; TEMPERATURE INDICATORS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WESTERN AREA; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIND DIRECTIONS; ZHUJIANG;

CLIMATE CONTROL; COASTAL ZONES; DISASTER PREVENTION; FLOOD CONTROL; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; TIME SERIES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; DELTA; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD CONTROL; MAGNITUDE; OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); ZHUJIANG BASIN;

EID: 84856213032     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0123-8     Document Type: Article

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