Possible association of the western Tibetan Plateau snow cover with the decadal to interdecadal variations of northern China heatwave frequency

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 2393-2402

  Wu, Zhiwei ^a,b   Jiang, Zhihong ^a   Li, Jianping ^b   Zhong, Shanshan ^a   Wang, Lijuan ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Decadal to interdecadal variations; Heatwave; Tibetan Plateau snow cover

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; DESERTIFICATION; DRINKING WATER; DROUGHT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NET RADIATION; SNOW COVER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHINA; MONGOLIA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84868152959     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1439-4     Document Type: Article

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