The 1920S drought recorded by tree rings and historical documents in the semi-arid and arid areas of northern China

Climatic Change

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 403-432

  Liang, Eryuan ^a,b   Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Yuan, Yujiang ^c   Qin, Ningsheng ^d   Fang, Xiuqi ^e   Huang, Lei ^a   Zhu, Haifeng ^e   Wang, Lily ^a,b   Shao, Xuemei ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^d Qinghai Climate Center   (China)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; VEGETATION;

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; NATURAL VEGETATION; SPATIAL ANOMALIES;

FORESTRY;

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; DROUGHT; HISTORICAL RECORD; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TREE RING;

FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33745847835     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9082-x     Document Type: Review

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