Tree-ring-based hydrological records for western Himalaya, India, since A.D. 1560

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 295-303

  Singh, Jayendra ^a,b   Park, Won Kyu ^b   Yadav, Ram R ^a  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOHYDROLOGY;

CEDRUS DEODARA;

EID: 32444438029     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0089-1     Document Type: Article

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