Changes in daily climate extremes in the arid area of northwestern China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 15-28

  Wang, Huaijun ^a,b   Chen, Yaning ^a   Xun, Shi ^c   Lai, Dongmei ^a,b   Fan, Yuting ^a,b   Li, Zhi ^a,b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARID REGION; DIURNAL VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84875306204     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0698-7     Document Type: Article

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