Temperature and precipitation changes over the Loess Plateau between 1961 and 2011, based on high-density gauge observations

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-10

  Sun, Qiaohong ^a,b   Miao, Chiyuan ^a,b   Duan, Qingyun ^a,b   Wang, Yafeng ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme events; Gini coefficient; Loess plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; FLOODS; GAGES; LANDFORMS; RAIN; SEDIMENTS;

DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; GINI COEFFICIENTS; LOESS PLATEAU; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; PRECIPITATION CHANGE;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; GAUGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL EROSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84934985661     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.05.011     Document Type: Article

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