Seasonal precipitation in the south-central Helan Mountain region, China, reconstructed from tree-ring width for the past 224 years

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2403-2412

  Liu, Yu ^a   Cai, Qiufang ^a   Shi, Jiangfeng ^a   Hughes, M K ^b   Kutzbach, J E ^c   Liu, Zhengyu ^c   Ni, Fenbiao ^b   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; SUMMER MONSOON; TREE-RING WIDTH;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; PRECIPITATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HELAN MOUNTAINS;

PINUS TABULIFORMIS;

EID: 33644514032     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x05-168     Document Type: Article

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