Recent temperature trends at mountain stations on the southern slope of the central Himalayas

Journal of Earth System Science

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 215-227

  Kattel, Dambaru Ballab ^a,b   Yao, Tandong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Central Himalayas; Maximum temperature warming; Mountain stations; Regime shift; Temperature trends; Variability

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE GAS; MICROCLIMATE; MOUNTAIN REGION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

HIMALAYAS; INDUS BASIN; NEPAL;

EID: 84875398054     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: 0973774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12040-012-0257-8     Document Type: Article

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