Pollen-based quantitative reconstruction of Holocene climate changes in the Daihai lake area, Inner Mongolia, China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2856-2868

  Xu, Qinghai ^a,b   Xiao, Jule ^c   Li, Yuecong ^a   Tian, Fang ^a   Nakagawa, Takeshi ^d  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE PROXIES; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DRY EVENTS; EAST ASIA; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENES; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; INDIAN MONSOON; INNER MONGOLIA; LAKE AREAS; LATE HOLOCENE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MODERN ANALOG TECHNIQUES; MONSOON CLIMATE; NATURAL VEGETATION; NORTHERN CHINA; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES METHOD; QUASI-SYNCHRONOUS; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; ROBUST RECONSTRUCTION; SOUTHERN CHINA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME PERIODS; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; LAKES; REPAIR; TANTALUM; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; DAIHAI LAKE; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 77954371725     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3155.1     Document Type: Article

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