Marine spatio-temporal process semantics and its applications-taking the El Niño Southern Oscilation process and Chinese rainfall anomaly as an example

Acta Oceanologica Sinica

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 16-24

  Xue, Cunjin ^a   Dong, Qing ^a   Xie, Jiong ^b  

^a CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

ENSO process; Hierarchical abstraction and inclusion by level; Marine process semantics; Rainfall anomalies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863655582     PISSN: 0253505X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13131-012-0188-x     Document Type: Article

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