Climate change over the past 2000 years in Western China

Quaternary International

Volumn 194, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 91-107

  Holmes, Jonathan A ^a   Cook, Edward R ^b   Yang, Bao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WARMING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 58149114745     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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