Decreasing Trend in Summer Precipitation over the Western Sichuan Basin since the 1950s

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 114-117

  Ri Yu, Lu ^a   Hong, Ye ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

decreasing trend; observational station data; summer precipitation; the western Sichuan basin

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 84872490441     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2011.11446915     Document Type: Article

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