Reconstruction of a 1436-year soil moisture and vegetation water use history based on tree-ring widths from Qilian junipers in northeastern Qaidam Basin, northwestern China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-53

  Yin, Zhi Yong ^a   Shao, Xuemei ^b   Qin, Ningsheng ^c   Liang, Eryuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Qinghai Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Dendroclimatology; Reconstruction of soil moisture condition; Water balance modelling

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOFTWOODS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; TREE RINGS; WATER BALANCE MODELLING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL MOISTURE; TREE RING; WATER STRESS; WATER USE;

GROWTH RINGS; JUNIPERUS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION; SOIL;

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

JUNIPERUS; SABINA PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 38649087957     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1515     Document Type: Article

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