Strong negative correlation between dust event frequency and air temperature over the northern Tibetan Plateau reflected by the Malan ice-core record

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2006, Pages 29-33

  Wang, Ninglian ^a,b   Yao, Tandong ^b   Thompson, Lonnie G ^c   Davis, Mary E ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DUST; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; ICE CORE; ICE THICKNESS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33846049208     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756406781812339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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