Recent progress in studies of climate change in China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 958-977

  Ren, Guoyu ^a   Ding, Yihui ^a   Zhao, Zongci ^a   Zheng, Jingyun ^b   Wu, Tongwen ^a   Tang, Guoli ^a   Xu, Ying ^a  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

attribution; China; climate change; climate model; detection; extreme climate; instrumental records; overview; precipitation; projection; proxy data; temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865659823     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1200-2     Document Type: Article

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