Tree ring density-based summer temperature reconstruction for the central Hengduan Mountains in southern China

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-11

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

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

dendroclimatology; Hengduan Mountains; maximum latewood density; ring width; temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GROWTH MODELING; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TREE RING;

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

PICEA; PICEA BRACHYTYLA;

EID: 58549097113     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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