Changes in daily temperature and precipitation extremes in the Yellow River Basin, China

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 401-421

  Wang, Weiguang ^a   Shao, Quanxi ^b   Yang, Tao ^a   Peng, Shizhang ^a   Yu, Zhongbo ^a,c   Taylor, John ^b   Xing, Wanqiu ^a   Zhao, Cuiping ^a   Sun, Fengchao ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatic extremes; Precipitation; Temperature; The Yellow River Basin

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATIC EXTREMES; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; GROWING SEASON LENGTHS; LINEAR REGRESSION METHODS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; YELLOW RIVER BASIN; YELLOW RIVER BASIN , CHINA;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84872485349     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-012-0615-8     Document Type: Article

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