Large-scale precipitation variability over northwest China inferred from tree rings

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3457-3468

  Fang, Keyan ^a   Gou, Xiaohua ^a   Chen, Fahu ^a   Cook, Edward ^b   Li, Jinbao ^b   Buckley, Brendan ^b   D'Arrigo, Rosanne ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Precipitation; Regression analysis; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CALIBRATION AND VERIFICATION; CLIMATE STATIONS; DATA SETS; JIUQUAN; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; NORTHWEST CHINA; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD; ROTATED PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TREE RINGS; XINJIANG;

FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREE RING;

CHINA; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 79960308793     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3911.1     Document Type: Article

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