Analysis of reconstructed annual precipitation from tree-rings for the past 500 years in the middle Qilian Mountain

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 770-778

  Tian, Qin Hua ^a,b,c   Zhou, Xiu Ji ^c   Gou, Xiao Hua ^b   Zhao, Ping ^d   Fan, Ze Xin ^e   Helama, Samuli ^f  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^d NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

empirical mode decomposition; multi scale precipitation variability; Qilian Mountain; tree ring reconstruction

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EARTH'S CLIMATE; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION METHOD; HIGH AMPLITUDES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS; LOW FREQUENCY; PERSISTENT FEATURE; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; RAINFALL EVENT; RING-WIDTH; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TIME FREQUENCY DOMAIN; TIME-SCALES; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION; WET CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; METALS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLAR ENERGY;

LANDFORMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TREE; TREE RING;

DROUGHT; ENERGY PRODUCTION; FORESTRY; GROWTH RINGS; METALS; METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAINS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SUN LIGHT;

CHINA; QILIAN MOUNTAINS;

JUNIPERUS PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 84860689751     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4375-6     Document Type: Article

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