Increasing flash droughts over China during the recent global warming hiatus

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Linying ^a,b   Yuan, Xing ^a   Xie, Zhenghui ^a   Wu, Peili ^c   Li, Yaohui ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CHINA; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84982091068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep30571     Document Type: Article

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