Observed changes in the distributions of daily precipitation frequency and amount over China from 1960 to 2013

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 6960-6978

  Ma, Shuangmei ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a,c   Dai, Aiguo ^d,e   Han, Zhenyu ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Climatology; Drizzle; Extreme events; Flood events; Precipitation; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODS; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; DRIZZLE; EXTREME EVENTS; FLOOD EVENT; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; TRENDS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATOLOGY; DRIZZLE; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84945921149     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0011.1     Document Type: Article

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