Investigation into the daily precipitation variability in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-185

  Sang, Yan Fang ^a,b   Wang, Zhonggen ^a   Li, Zongli ^c   Liu, Changming ^a   Liu, Xiaojie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Precipitation; Precipitation extreme; Rain intensity; Trend; Urbanization; Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; RAIN-INTENSITY; TREND; URBANIZATION; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; INFILTRATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84872181670     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9202     Document Type: Article

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