Regionalization-based spatiotemporal variations of precipitation regimes across China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 203-212

  Xiao, Mingzhong ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b   Chen, Xiaohong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONALIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84884588919     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0832-1     Document Type: Article

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