Changing features of the climate and glaciers in China's monsoonal temperate glacier region

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  He, Yuanqing ^a,b   Zhang, Zhonglin ^a   Theakstone, Wilfred H ^b   Chen, Tuo ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Pang, Hongxi ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL HISTORY; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 1342291274     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003365     Document Type: Article

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