Temperature variation through 2000 years in China: An uncertainty analysis of reconstruction and regional difference

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Ge, Q S ^a   Zheng, J Y ^a   Hao, Z X ^a   Shao, X M ^a   Wang, Wei Chyung ^b   Luterbacher, Juerg ^c  

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

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; CLIMATE REGIONS; TEMPERATURE SERIES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

CHINA;

EID: 76349117232     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041281     Document Type: Article

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