An objective identification technique for regional extreme events

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7015-7027

  Ren, Fumin ^a   Cui, Donglin ^a,b   Gong, Zhiqiang ^a   Wang, Yanjiao ^a   Zou, Xukai ^a   Li, Yiping ^a   Wang, Shigong ^b   Wang, Xiaoling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EVENT; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME WEATHER; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDEX SYSTEMS; LOW TEMPERATURES; OBJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL LOCATION; TEMPORAL CONTINUITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CHINA;

EID: 84867676849     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00489.1     Document Type: Article

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