Snow anomaly events from historical documents in eastern China during the past two millennia and implication for low-frequency variability of AO/NAO and PDO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Chu, Guoqiang ^a   Sun, Qing ^b   Wang, Xiaohua ^a   Sun, Junying ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR GEOANALYSIS   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RESTORATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

ABNORMAL EVENTS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATE SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC MECHANISMS; EAST ASIA; EASTERN CHINA; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; INSTRUMENTAL DATA; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PACIFIC OCEAN; SNOW COVERS; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; TIME SCALING; VARIATIONS OF; WARM CLIMATES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SNOW; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 53749088608     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034475     Document Type: Article

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