Changing characteristics of precipitation in China during 1960-2012

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1387-1402

  Wu, Yanjuan ^a   Wu, Shuang Ye ^b,c   Wen, Jiahong ^a   Xu, Ming ^d   Tan, Jianguo ^d  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

China; Climate change; Daily precipitation; Extreme; History trend

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHINA; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; EXTREME; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; PRECIPITATION IN CHINA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CHINA;

EID: 84938634815     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4432     Document Type: Article

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