Trends in monthly temperature and precipitation extremes in the Zhujiang River Basin, South China (1961-2007)

Advances in Climate Change Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 63-70

  Fischer, Thomas ^a   Gemmer, Marco ^a   Liu, Lüliu ^a   Su, Buda ^a  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

China; Extremes; Precipitation; Temperature; Zhujiang River Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899805799     PISSN: 16749278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1248.2010.00063     Document Type: Article

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