Changes in extreme temperature and precipitation events in the Loess Plateau (China) during 1960-2013 under global warming

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 168, Issue , 2016, Pages 33-48

  Sun, Wenyi ^a   Mu, Xingmin ^a   Song, Xiaoyan ^a   Wu, Dan ^b   Cheng, Aifang ^c   Qiu, Bing ^d  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c BAOJI UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (China)

^d YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Extreme climatic events; Large scale atmospheric circulation; Precipitation; Temperature; The Loess Plateau in China

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SEDIMENTS; STORMS; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATIC EVENTS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; LOESS PLATEAU; PRECIPITATION INDICES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84941710269     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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