Hydrological extremes in the Aksu-Tarim River Basin: Mid-latitude dynamics

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 7-8, 2016, Pages 2039-2050

  Borth, Hartmut ^b   Tao, Hui ^a   Fraedrich, Klaus ^c   Schneidereit, Andrea ^d   Zhu, Xiuhua ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aksu tarim river basin; Cyclone tracks; Drought and wetness; Geopotential height; Mid latitude dynamics; Potential vorticity front; Standardized precipitation index

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

AKSU BASIN; CHINA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84933055420     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2650-x     Document Type: Article

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