Spatiotemporal characteristics of dryness/wetness conditions across qinghai province, northwest china

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 182-183, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-108

  Liu, Zhiyong ^a   Zhou, Ping ^b   Zhang, Fangqiu ^b   Liu, Xiande ^c   Chen, Gang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GUANGDONG ACADEMY OF FORESTRY   (China)

^c Academy of Water Resources Conservation Forests in Qilian Mountains of Gansu Province   (China)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; Mann Kendall test; Qinghai Province; Rotated EOF; Self calibrating PDSI

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARID REGION; CALIBRATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI; TOGTON RIVER; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84885186759     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.05.013     Document Type: Article

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