Regional extreme climate events on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau since AD 1450 inferred from tree rings

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 143-154

  Qin, Chun ^a   Yang, Bao ^a   Bräuning, Achim ^b   Sonechkin, Dmitry M ^c   Huang, Kai ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anomalous year; Atmospheric dynamics; Dendroclimatology; Extreme climate events; Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS YEAR; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; EXTREME CLIMATE EVENTS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODS; LAKES;

ECOLOGY;

ARID REGION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREE RING;

CHINA; LAKE BAIKAL; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 79951510289     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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