Three centuries of Myanmar monsoon climate variability inferred from teak tree rings

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  D'Arrigo, Rosanne ^a   Palmer, Jonathan ^b   Ummenhofer, Caroline C ^c   Kyaw, Nyi Nyi ^d   Krusic, Paul ^e  

^a Tree Ring Laboratory Earth Institute Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Gondwana Tree Ring Laboratory Little River Banks Peninsula   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Defence Services Medical Research Centre   (Myanmar)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RAIN;

ASIAN MONSOON; CLIMATE INDEX; CLIMATE SIGNATURES; DRY CONDITION; FOREST RESERVES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MEGADROUGHTS; MONSOON CLIMATE; MONSOON RAINFALL; MONSOON SEASON; MYANMARS; PALEOCLIMATIC INFORMATION; PALEOCLIMATIC RECORD; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PROXY RECORDS; RING WIDTH; SENSITIVE INDEX; SPATIAL COVERAGE; TEAK TREES; THAILAND; TREE RING RECORDS; VIET NAM;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; GROWTH RATE; INDEX METHOD; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TREE RING;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PRESSURE; RAIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

MYANMAR;

TECTONA GRANDIS;

EID: 84855258511     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049927     Document Type: Article

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