Spatiotemporal variations of precipitation regimes across Yangtze River Basin, China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 703-712

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Peng, Juntai ^a   Xu, Chong Yu ^b   Singh, Vijay P ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 84894989477     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0916-y     Document Type: Article

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