Expected changes in future temperature extremes and their elevation dependency over the Yellow River source region

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2501-2514

  Hu, Y ^a,b   Maskey, S ^b   Uhlenbrook, S ^b,c  

^a YELLOW RIVER INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SCENARIO; EXTREME TEMPERATURE INDICES; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING MODEL (SDSM); TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; VALIDATION RESULTS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EMISSION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FROST; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84880140923     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-2501-2013     Document Type: Article

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