A 2,326-year tree-ring record of climate variability on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Zhang, Qi Bin ^a   Cheng, Guodong ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Kang, Xingcheng ^a   Huang, Jianguo ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); FORESTRY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

TREE RINGS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC CHANGES; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTHEASTERN QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; SPRING PRECIPITATION; TREE RING RECORDS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 0141907744     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017425     Document Type: Article

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