Spatiotemporal trends of precipitation on the Loess Plateau of China

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3650-3656

  Wan, L ^a   Zhang, X P ^a,b   Ma, Q ^a   Sun, Y P ^a   Ma, T Y ^a   Zhang, J J ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Loess Plateau; Precipitation; Return period; Spatial distribution change; Temporal trend

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; AVERAGE ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CHANGE-POINTS; DRY SEASONS; FLOOD PERIODS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; KRIGING INTERPOLATION; LOESS PLATEAU; MANN-KENDALL; MANN-KENDALL TEST; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NEGATIVE VALUES; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; POSITIVE VALUE; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; RAINY SEASONS; RETURN PERIODS; SLOPE ESTIMATION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; VEGETATION RESTORATION; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; WET SEASON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TIME SERIES;

STORMS;

EID: 84863349831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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