Decreasing trend of sunshine hours and related driving forces in Southwestern China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 305-321

  Zongxing, Li ^a,b   Qi, Feng ^a   Wei, Zhang ^a,b   Yuanqing, He ^a   Xufeng, Wang ^a,b   Catto, Norm ^c   Wenlin, An ^a,b   Jiankuo, Du ^a,b   Aifang, Chen ^a,b   Li, Liu ^a,b   Meng, Hu ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLOUD COVER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84862806933     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0583-4     Document Type: Article

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