Precipitation variability during the past 400 years in the Xiaolong Mountain (central China) inferred from tree rings

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1697-1707

  Fang, Keyan ^a,b   Gou, Xiaohua ^a   Chen, Fahu ^a   Frank, David ^c,d   Liu, Changzhi ^a   Li, Jinbao ^e   Kazmer, Miklos ^f  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; Central China; Dendroclimatology; Precipitation; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HADLEY CELL; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREE RING;

CHINA; GANSU; XIAOLONGSHAN;

PINUS TABULIFORMIS;

EID: 84867101023     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1371-7     Document Type: Article

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