Variations of the spring precipitation day numbers reconstructed from tree rings in the Urumqi River drainage, Tianshan Mts. over the last 370 years

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1507-1510

  Yuan, Yujiang ^a   Jin, Liya ^b   Shao, Xuemei ^c   He, Qing ^a   Li, Zhizhong ^d   Li, Jiangfeng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^d University of Xinjiang   (China)

Author keywords

Number of precipitation days; Precipitation reconstruction; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

PICEA;

EID: 33749666541     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02wd0251     Document Type: Article

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