A 200 year temperature record from tree ring δ13C at the Qaidam Basin of the Tibetan Plateau after identifying the optimum method to correct for changing atmospheric CO2 and δ13C

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Wenzhi ^a   Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Shao, Xuemei ^b   Leavitt, Steven ^c   Xu, Guobao ^a   An, Wenling ^a   Qin, Dahe ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWING SEASON; PALEOCLIMATE; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREE RING; WARMING; WEATHER STATION;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

JUNIPERUS; SABINA PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 82355171818     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001665     Document Type: Article

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