Annual temperatures during the last 2485 years in the mid-eastern tibetan plateau inferred from tree rings

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 348-359

  Liu, Yu ^a,c   An, ZhiSheng ^a   Linderholm, Hans W ^b   Chen, DeLiang ^b   Song, HuiMing ^a   Cai, QiuFang ^a   Sun, JunYan ^a   Tian, Hua ^a,d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dynasty's downfall; Mid eastern Tibetan Plateau; Temperature variations; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS;

ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; AVERAGE TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE VARIATIONS; DYNASTY'S DOWNFALL; LARGE PARTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MID-EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RAPID SHIFTS; RING-WIDTH INDICES; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAUX; TIME-SCALES; TREE RINGS;

RESTORATION;

CLIMATE VARIATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREE RING; WARMING;

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

EID: 62749114710     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-009-0025-z     Document Type: Article

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