Recent tree-growth reduction in north central China as a combined result of a weakened monsoon and atmospheric oscillations

Climatic Change

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 519-536

  Kang, Shuyuan ^a   Yang, Bao ^a   Qin, Chun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ECONOMIC LOSS; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN OCEAN; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LONG LASTING; LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE; NORTHERN CHINA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PINUS TABULAEFORMIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STUDY AREAS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-SCALES; TREE GROWTH; TREE RING RECORDS; TREE-RING WIDTH; YELLOW RIVER;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FOOD SUPPLY; FORESTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; LOSSES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

DROUGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CALIBRATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EL NINO; EPISODIC EVENT; EXTREME EVENT; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MONSOON; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREE RING;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CHINA; DROUGHT; FOOD; LOSSES; MOUNTAINS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

PINUS TABULIFORMIS;

EID: 84868690377     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0440-6     Document Type: Article

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