A dendrochronological analysis of maximum summer half-year temperature variations over the past 700 years on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 93, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 195-206

  Gou, Xiaohua ^a,b   Peng, J ^a   Chen, F ^a   Yang, M ^c   Levia, D F ^d   Li, J ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TREE RING;

ANIMAQIN MOUNTAINS; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

CUPRESSUS; JUNIPERUS;

EID: 48449099336     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-007-0336-y     Document Type: Article

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