Annual temperature reconstruction in the central Hengduan Mountains, China, as deduced from tree rings

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-107

  Fan, Ze Xin ^a,b   Bräuning, Achim ^b   Cao, Kun Fang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendroclimatology; Hengduan Mountain; Ring width; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EVERGREEN TREE; GROWTH RESPONSE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREE RING; TREELINE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS;

ABIES; ABIES GEORGEI; PICEA; PICEA BRACHYTYLA;

EID: 50849095167     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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