Detection of urbanization signals in extreme winter minimum temperature changes over Northern China

Climatic Change

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 595-608

  Li, Qingxiang ^a   Huang, Jiayou ^b   Jiang, Zhihong ^c   Zhou, Liming ^d   Chu, Peng ^c   Hu, Kaixi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

CHARACTERISTICS PARAMETERS; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE (GEV) DISTRIBUTIONS; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; RAPID URBANIZATIONS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84925190783     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1013-z     Document Type: Article

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