Solar activity, global surface air temperature anomaly and pacific decadal oscillation recorded in urban tree rings

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 743-756

  He, Xingyuan ^a   Chen, Zhenju ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Shao, Xuemei ^b,c   He, HongS ^a,d   Sun, Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Global surface air temperature anomaly; Pacific decadal oscillation; Sunspot number; Urban tree rings; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREE RING; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAONING; SHENYANG;

PINUS TABULIFORMIS;

EID: 36248948042     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/forest:2007054     Document Type: Article

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