The increase of snowfall in Northeast China after the mid-1980s

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1350-1354

  Wang, HuiJun ^a,b   He, ShengPing ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian winter monsoon; interdecadal variability; winter snowfall

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886088628     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5508-1     Document Type: Article

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