Variation of the proportion of precipitation occurring as snow in the Tian Shan Mountains, China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1379-1393

  Guo, Lingpeng ^a,b   Li, Lanhai ^a,c  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mann Kendall test; Snowfall precipitation; Tian Shan Mountains

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; SNOW; WATER RESOURCES;

MANN-KENDALL TEST; MIDDLE ALTITUDES; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; SEMI-ARID WATERSHED; SNOWMELT REGIMES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TIAN SHAN MOUNTAINS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84930374428     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4063     Document Type: Article

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