Changes of summer precipitation in China: The dominance of frequency and intensity and linkage with changes in moisture and air temperature

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 119, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 12,575-12,587

  Lu, Er ^a,b   Zeng, Yingting ^a   Luo, Yali ^c   Ding, Ying ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Liu, Siyuan ^a   Gong, Liqing ^a   Jiang, Ying ^a   Jiang, Zhihong ^a   Chen, Haishan ^a  

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

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

dominance and relative importance; frequency and intensity; moisture and air temperature; rainfall total and extreme precipitation; variability and change

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

CHINA;

EID: 84918496933     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022456     Document Type: Article

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