Inconsistencies of precipitation in the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau between surface adjusted data and reanalysis

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 485-496

  You, Qinglong ^a,b,c   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b   Ren, Guoyu ^c   Ye, Baisheng ^a   Meng, Xianhong ^d   Kang, Shichang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84864448792     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0594-1     Document Type: Article

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