Wetting tendency in the Central Mekong Basin consistent with climate change-induced atmospheric disturbances already observed in East Asia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 251-263

  Lacombe, G ^a   Smakhtin, V ^b   Hoanh, C T ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Laos)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRY SEASON; GLOBAL WARMING; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER RESOURCE; WET SEASON;

CHINA; MEKONG BASIN;

EID: 84871929355     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0654-6     Document Type: Article

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