Tree-ring based precipitation reconstruction for the forest-steppe ecotone in northern Inner Mongolia, China and its linkages to the Pacific Ocean variability

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 86-87, Issue , 2012, Pages 45-56

  Chen, Zhenju ^a   Zhang, Xianliang ^a   Cui, Mingxing ^a,b   He, Xingyuan ^a,b   Ding, Weihang ^a   Peng, Junjie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dryness and wetness; Hulunbei'er steppe; Pacific Ocean; Precipitation; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; DRY CONDITION; DRYNESS AND WETNESS; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; HULUNBEI'ER STEPPE; INNER MONGOLIA; INTERANNUAL; MOUNTAIN FORESTS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; RING-WIDTH; TREE RINGS; WET CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

FORESTRY;

CHRONOLOGY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DUNE; ECOTONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; MONTANE FOREST; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; STEPPE; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WET SEASON;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CHINA; FORESTRY; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOUNTAINS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION; RINGS;

CHINA; DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS; HULUNBEIER; NEI MONGGOL; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84862800594     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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