Changes in precipitation extremes over the Pearl River Basin, southern China, during 1960-2012

Quaternary International

Volumn 333, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-39

  Zhao, Yifei ^a   Zou, Xinqing ^a   Cao, Liguo ^a   Xu, Xinwanghao ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform; Extreme climate; Pearl River Basin; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG BASIN;

EID: 84900506090     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.03.060     Document Type: Article

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