Climate change and the ecological responses in Xinjiang, China: Model simulations and data analyses

Quaternary International

Volumn 311, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-116

  Fang, Shifeng ^a   Yan, Jianwu ^a,b   Che, Mingliang ^a,b   Zhu, Yunqiang ^a   Liu, Zhihui ^c   Pei, Huan ^d   Zhang, Huifang ^a,b   Xu, Guang ^a,b   Lin, Xiaofeng ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84884813987     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.032     Document Type: Article

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