Surface pressure record of Tibetan Plateau warming since the 1870s

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 669, 2012, Pages 1999-2008

  Moore, G W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Surface pressure; Surface warming; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; FASTER RATES; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HIGH ELEVATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE PRESSURES; SURFACE WARMING; THERMAL SOURCE; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE PRESSURE; TOPOGRAPHY; WARMING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84871630106     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1948     Document Type: Article

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