Changing characteristics of precipitation in China during 1960–2012

• Published in: International journal of climatology Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 1387 - 1402
• Main Authors: Wu, Yanjuan, Wu, Shuang‐Ye, Wen, Jiahong, Xu, Ming, Tan, Jianguo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 15.03.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: China; climate change; daily precipitation; extreme; history trend; Precipitation; China, People's Rep

ABSTRACT In this study, we investigated changes in the precipitation characteristics for China from 1960 to 2012 based on a recent daily precipitation dataset of 666 climate stations and robust non‐parametric trend detection techniques. We divided all precipitation events into four non‐overlapping c...