A Preliminary Analysis of the Relationship between Precipitation Variation Trends and Altitude in China

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-46

  Qing, Yang ^a,b   Zhu Guo, Ma ^a   Liang, Chen ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

altitude; correlation; precipitation tendency rate; topographic effect

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84955177878     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2011.11446899     Document Type: Article

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