Spatial and temporal variations of winter snow over east of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the last 50 years

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1493-1503

  Hu, Haoran ^a   Liang, Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Interdecadal variation; Qinghai Tibet Plateau; Spatial distribution; Winter snow

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BAYAN HAR MOUNTAINS; CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84891854556     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11821/dlxb201311005     Document Type: Article

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