Temperature and precipitation variations at two meteorological stations on eastern slope of Gongga Mountain, SW China in the past two decades

Journal of Mountain Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 370-377

  Wu, Yan hong ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a   Cao, Yang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Global change; Gongga Mountain; Precipitation; Temperature; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878324229     PISSN: 16726316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-013-2328-y     Document Type: Article

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