Climate change hotspots identification in China through the CMIP5 global climate model ensemble

Advances in Meteorology

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gu, Huanghe ^a   Yu, Zhongbo ^a,b   Wang, Jigan ^a   Ju, Qin ^a   Yang, Chuanguo ^a   Fan, Chuanhao ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 84901290202     PISSN: 16879309     EISSN: 16879317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/963196     Document Type: Article

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