Eigen analysis of tree-ring records: Part 2, posing the eigen problem

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 131-141

  Yang, Bao ^a   Sonechkin, Dmitry M ^b   Datsenko, Nina M ^c   Ivashchenko, Nadezda N ^c   Liu, Jingjing ^a   Qin, Chun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EIGENVALUE; MATRIX; PALEOCLIMATE; SOLAR CYCLE; TREE RING; VECTOR;

CHINA; DULAN; QINGHAI;

JUNIPERUS; SABINA PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 84862908632     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0468-y     Document Type: Article

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