Spatiotemporal analysis of temperature trends under climate change in the source region of the Yellow River, China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 123-133

  Wang, Yuli ^a   Wang, Xuan ^a,c   Li, Chunhui ^a   Wu, Feifei ^b   Yang, Zhifeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84893710028     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-014-1112-4     Document Type: Article

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