Temperature variations on the Tibetan Plateau over the last two millennia

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1446-1450

  Yang, Bao ^a   Braeuning, A ^b   Shi, Yafeng ^a   Zhang, Jiawu ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; The last two millennia; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749829050     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02wd0248     Document Type: Article

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