Drought over China in the 21st Century: Results of RegCM3

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 509-513

  Ke, Liu ^a,b,c   Da Bang, Jiang ^a,b   Jian Yong, Ma ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

China; drought; EDI; RegCM3

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CHINA; XIZANG; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84897953555     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2012.11447037     Document Type: Article

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