Tree rings and climate for the last 680 years in Wulan area of northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Climatic Change

Volumn 80, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 369-377

  Huang, Jian Guo ^a,b   Zhang, Qi Bin ^a,c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; ICE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CRITICAL LIMITING FACTOR; LITTLE ICE AGE (LIA); RING-WIDTH CHRONOLOGY; TREE-RING GROWTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CORRELATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; DRY SEASON; EVERGREEN TREE; LIMITING FACTOR; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPRING (SEASON); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

GROWTH; TREES;

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

SABINA PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 33846610456     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9135-1     Document Type: Article

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