Is southwestern China experiencing more frequent precipitation extremes?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Meixian ^a   Xu, Xianli ^a   Sun, Alexander Y ^b   Wang, Kelin ^a   Liu, Wen ^c   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HUNAN FIRST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

climate extremes; copula; disaster

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; FLOODS;

CLIMATE EXTREMES; COPULA; MANN-KENDALL TRENDS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PROBABILISTIC CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT STRESS; FLOOD; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; NATURAL HAZARD; POLICY MAKING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK FACTOR;

CHINA;

EID: 84903589568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064002     Document Type: Article

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