A 622-year regional temperature history of southeast Tibet derived from tree rings

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 181-190

  Yang, Bao ^a,b,c   Kang, Xingcheng ^a   Bräuning, Achim ^c   Liu, Jian ^d   Qin, Chun ^a   Liu, Jingjing ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forcing mechanism; Temperature reconstruction; The Asian summer monsoon; Tibetan Plateau; Tree ring width record

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVERGREEN TREE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CHINA; XIZANG;

CUPRESSUS; CUPRESSUS GIGANTEA; JUNIPERUS;

EID: 77649254080     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609350388     Document Type: Article

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