Mongolian tree rings and 20th-century warming

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5276, 1996, Pages 771-773

  Jacoby, Gordon C ^a   D'Arrigo, Rosanne D ^a   Davaajamts, Tsevegyn ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MONGOLIA; PINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; TREE;

PINUS SIBIRICA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TREE RING; WARMING;

MONGOLIA, TARVAGATAY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0029660054     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5276.771     Document Type: Article

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