A tree-ring record of 500-year dry-wet changes in northern Tibet, China

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 579-588

  Wang, Xiaochun ^a,b   Zhang, Qi Bin ^a   Ma, Keping ^a   Xiao, Shengchun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

'Little ice age'; China; Climate reconstruction; Northern Tibet; Palmer Drought Severity Index; PDSI; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; EVERGREEN TREE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; TREE RING; WARMING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

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

SABINA;

EID: 58149390945     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683608089212     Document Type: Article

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