Rainfall history for the Hexi Corridor in the arid northwest China during the past 620 years derived from tree rings

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1166-1176

  Yang, Bao ^a,b   Qin, Chun ^a   Bräuning, Achim ^c   Burchardt, Iris ^c   Liu, Jingjing ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arid northwest China; Dendrochronology; Dendroclimatology; Precipitation reconstruction; Sabina przewalskii; The Asian summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; NORTHWEST CHINA; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; SABINA PRZEWALSKII;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; LINEAR REGRESSION;

LANDFORMS;

ANGIOSPERM; ARID REGION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TIMESCALE; TREE RING;

CHINA; GANSU; HEXI CORRIDOR; QILIAN MOUNTAINS;

JUNIPERUS; SABINA PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 79958755796     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2143     Document Type: Article

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