Decadal-scale precipitation variations in arid and semiarid zones of northern China during the last 500 years

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 842-848

  Wang, Tao ^a   Yang, Bao ^a   Braeuning, A ^b   Xia, Dunsheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arid and semiarid zones; Historical documents; Ice cores; Last 500 years; Precipitation variation; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749825643     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03wd0609     Document Type: Article

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