Temperature variations over the past millennium on the Tibetan Plateau revealed by four ice cores

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2007, Pages 362-366

  Yao, Tandong ^a,b   Duan, Keqin ^a,b   Thompson, L G ^a,c   Wang, Ninglian ^a,b   Tian, Lide ^a,b   Xu, Baiqing ^a,b   Wang, Youqing ^a,b   Yu, Wusheng ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE CORE; ICE FIELD; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

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

EID: 55349108580     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756407782871305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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