Warming amplification of minimum and maximum temperatures over high-elevation regions across the globe (PLoS ONE 10:10 (e0140213))

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Fan, Xiaohui ^a   Wang, Qixiang ^a   Wang, Mengben ^a   Jimenez, Claudia Villarroel ^b  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dirección Meteorológica de Chile   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERNATIONALITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84948822911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140213     Document Type: Article

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