Climatic implications of a 3585-year tree-ring width chronology from the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2111-2122

  Shao, X ^a   Xu, Y ^a   Yin, Z Y ^b   Liang, E ^c   Zhu, H ^a   Wang, S ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCINGS; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH PERIOD; INTERDECADAL; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; NORTHEASTERN QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; PRIMARY CONTROL; QAIDAM BASIN; RING-WIDTH; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TIME-SCALES; TREE GROWTH; TREE-RING WIDTH; TREELINE; WOOD SAMPLES;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; WOOD;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPOSITE; GROWING SEASON; TIMESCALE; TREE RING; TREELINE;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; MOISTURE CONTROL; STATISTICS; WOOD;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

JUNIPERUS; SABINA PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 77955277099     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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