Spatial and temporal precipitation variability in the source region of the Yellow River

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Li, Qiong ^a,b   Yang, Meixue ^a   Wan, Guoning ^a   Wang, Xuejia ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

GIS; Precipitation regression; Spatio temporal precipitation variability; The source region of the Yellow River

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AUTUMN PRECIPITATION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; WINTER PRECIPITATION; YELLOW RIVER;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GIS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84961990956     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-016-5583-8     Document Type: Article

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