Changing trends and abrupt features of extreme temperature in Mainland China from 1960 to 2010

Atmosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Fang, Shibo ^a,b   Qi, Yue ^c   Han, Guojun ^a   Li, Qingxiang ^c   Zhou, Guangsheng ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme weather events; Global warming; Heat waves; Maximum temperature; Minimum temperature; Temperature extreme

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING;

EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; HEAT WAVES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84960107627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos7020022     Document Type: Article

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