Variability of temperature in the Tibetan Plateau based on homogenized surface stations and reanalysis data

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1337-1347

  You, Qinglong ^a,b,c   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b   Ren, Guoyu ^c   Pepin, Nick ^d   Kang, Shichang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elevation dependency; Reanalysis; Tibetan Plateau; Warming trend

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION DEPENDENCY; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FREE AIR TEMPERATURE; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; REANALYSIS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WARMING TREND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84876338839     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3512     Document Type: Article

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