Precipitation trends and variability from 1950 to 2000 in arid lands of Central Asia

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 514-526

  Xu, Ligang ^a,b   Zhou, Hongfei ^a   Du, Li ^b   Yao, Haijiao ^a   Wang, Huaibo ^b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b The Scientific Research Institute of the Water Conservancy of Ningxia   (China)

Author keywords

arid lands of Central Asia; Mann Kendall method; precipitation; stability; tendency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928343927     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40333-015-0045-9     Document Type: Article

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