Late Holocene Asian summer monsoon variability reflected by δ18O in tree-rings from Tibetan junipers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Grieinger, Jussi ^a   Bruning, Achim ^a   Helle, Gerd ^b   Thomas, Axel ^c   Schleser, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; O RINGS; OXYGEN; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

15TH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; CLIMATE DATA; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; LATE HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SUMMER MONSOON; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; TREE RINGS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; EVERGREEN TREE; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MONSOON; NINETEENTH CENTURY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

JUNIPERUS;

EID: 79551575581     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045988     Document Type: Article

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