The spatio-temporal variation of winter climate anomalies in southwestern China and the possible influencing factors

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1325-1335

  Jiang, Xingwen ^a,b   Li, Yueqing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; Northern hemisphere annular mode (NAM, AO); Southwestern China; The winter of 2010; Winter monsoon

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DROUGHT; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTREME EVENT; LA NINA; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84861108389     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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