Climatic Features of Rainfall in the Loess Plateau in China

Journal of Agricultural Meteorology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 173-189

  Takayama, Naru ^a   Kimura, Reiji ^a   Kamichika, Makio ^a   Matsuoka, Nobuhiro ^b   Zhang, Xingchang ^c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Precipitation ratio; Precipitation stability index; Rainy season stability index; The features of precipitation; The Loess Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988009242     PISSN: 00218588     EISSN: 18810136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2480/agrmet.60.173     Document Type: Article

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