Assessment of future drought in Southwest China based on CMIP5 multimodel projections

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1035-1050

  Wang, Lin ^a,b   Chen, Wen ^a   Zhou, Wen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

drought; Southwest China; spatial disaggregation; Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904301293     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-014-3223-3     Document Type: Article

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