Trends of precipitation extremes during 1960-2008 in Xinjiang, the Northwest China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 133-148

  Jiang, Feng qing ^a,b   Hu, Ru Ji ^a   Wang, Shao Ping ^a   Zhang, Yan Wei ^a   Tong, Li ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84871929394     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0657-3     Document Type: Article

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