Tree-ring based drought reconstruction for the central Tien Shan area in northwest China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Li, Jinbao ^a,b   Gou, Xiaohua ^a   Cook, Edward R ^b   Chen, Fahu ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; DROUGHT RECONSTRUCTION; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX (PDSI); TREE-RING;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

ASIA; EURASIA; TIEN SHAN;

PICEA SCHRENKIANA;

EID: 33646822838     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025803     Document Type: Article

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