Changes in the observed trends in extreme temperatures over China around 1990

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5208-5222

  Qi, Li ^a,b   Wang, Yuqing ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Extreme events; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SHIFTS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COLD TEMPERATURES; COOLING TRENDS; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; NARROW BANDS; NORTH CHINA; NORTHEAST CHINA; SEASONAL MEAN; SOUTH CHINA; TEMPERATURE INDEX; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRENDS; WEATHER STATIONS; YANGTZE RIVER;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; WINTER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84865073501     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00437.1     Document Type: Article

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