Aridity changes in the Tibetan Plateau in a warming climate

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Gao, Yanhong ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Ruby Leung, L ^b   Chen, Deliang ^c   Xu, Jianwei ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aridity; desertification; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

WIND;

ARIDITY; DESERTIFICATION; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARIDITY; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84925397448     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034013     Document Type: Article

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