Annual regional precipitation variations from a 700 year tree-ring record in south Tibet, western China

Climate Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-41

  Liu, Jingjing ^a   Yang, Bao ^a,b   Huang, Kai ^a   Sonechkin, Dmitry M ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climate change; North Atlantic Oscillation; South Asian summer monsoon; Tibetan Plateau; Tree ring; Westerlies

Indexed keywords

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TREE RINGS; WESTERLIES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MOISTURE CONTROL;

FORESTRY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; ELEVATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREE RING; WESTERLY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

CUPRESSUS; CUPRESSUS GIGANTEA;

EID: 84861631205     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01081     Document Type: Article

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