Winter temperature variations over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River since 1736 AD

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1023-1030

  Hao, Z X ^a   Zheng, J Y ^a   Ge, Q S ^a   Wang, W C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WINTER;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84878519175     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1023-2012     Document Type: Article

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