A short note on linkage of climatic records between a river valley and the upper timberline in the Sygera Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 97-102

  Liang, Eryuan ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Zhu, Liping ^a   Yin, Zhi Yong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; Dendroclimatic calibration; Representative; Southeastern tibetan plateau; Timberline; Valley bottom

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DENDROCLIMATIC CALIBRATION; REPRESENTATIVE; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIMBERLINE; VALLEY BOTTOM;

CALIBRATION; FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

LANDFORMS;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREE RING; TREELINE; VALLEY; WEATHER STATION;

EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PLANTS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SYGERA MOUNTAINS; XIZANG;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS SALTUARIA;

EID: 79956267843     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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