The day-to-day monitoring of the 2011 severe drought in China

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Lu, Er ^a,b   Cai, Wenyue ^c   Jiang, Zhihong ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^c   Zhang, Cunjie ^c   Higgins, R Wayne ^b   Halpert, Michael S ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

At daily scale; Day to day monitoring; Drought monitoring; Short timescale; The WAP index

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEVERE WEATHER;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84906086397     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1987-2     Document Type: Article

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