Changes of climate extremes of temperature and precipitation in summer in eastern China associated with changes in atmospheric circulation in East Asia during 1960-2008

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1856-1861

  Li, Juan ^a,c   Dong, WenJie ^b   Yan, ZhongWei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

climate extremes; daily temperature and precipitation observations; interdecadal changes in atmospheric circulation; Singular Value Decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884304380     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-4989-2     Document Type: Article

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