Regional differences in the relationship between climatic factors, vegetation, land surface conditions, and dust weather in China's Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Region

Natural Hazards

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-44

  Wu, Jianjun ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a   Zheng, Yanting ^a   Lü, Aifeng ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Beijing Tianjin Sand Source Region; China; Climatic factors; Dust; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; DUST; DUST STORM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; TIANJIN;

EID: 84859495446     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0039-7     Document Type: Article

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