Tree-ring evidence of 'little ice age' glacier advances in southern Tibet

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 369-380

  Bräuning, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Dendroclimatology; Dendroglaciology; Glacier history; Summer temperatures; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; GLACIER; GROWTH; HOLOCENE; METEOROLOGY; MORAINE; PLEISTOCENE; TREE RING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

ABIES; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS TIBETICA; LARIX; LARIX GRIFFITHIANA; PICEA;

EID: 33646364792     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hl922rp     Document Type: Article

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