Variability of summer precipitation over Eastern China during the last millennium

Climate of the Past

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-141

  Shen, C ^a   Wang, W C ^a   Peng, Y ^b,c   Xu, Y ^c   Zheng, J ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 75749123030     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-5-129-2009     Document Type: Article

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