Temperature variations recovered from tree-rings in the middle Qilian Mountain over the last millennium

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 521-529

  Liu, Xiaohong ^a,b   Qin, Dahe ^a   Shao, Xuemei ^b   Chen, Tuo ^a   Ren, Jiawen ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Middle Qilian Mountain; Temperature variations; Tree ring width chronology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; METEOROLOGY;

METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS;

TEMPERATURE;

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; WORLD;

EID: 27844602106     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yd0063     Document Type: Article

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