Monsoonal precipitation variation in the Earth Asia since A.D. 1840 - Tree-ring evidences from China and Korea

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1031-1039

  Liu, Yu ^a   Park, Won Kyu ^b   Cai, Qiufang ^a   Seo, Jung Wook ^b   Jung, Hyun Sook ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

China; East Asian summer monsoon precipitation; Korea; Tree ring precipitation reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

MONSOON;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 0346256532     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yd0286     Document Type: Article

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