A gridded reconstruction of warm season precipitation for asia spanning the past half millennium

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2192-2204

  Feng, Song ^a   Hu, Qi ^a   Wu, Qianru ^b   Mann, Michael E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN CONTINENT; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; HUMID CLIMATES; ICE CORE RECORDS; INSTRUMENTAL DATA; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; REGULARIZED EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; WARM SEASON PRECIPITATION;

ARID REGIONS; FORESTRY; LASERS;

REPAIR;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE CORE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING;

ASIA; FORESTRY; LASERS; MAINTENANCE; PRECIPITATION;

CHINA; INDIA;

EID: 84874297770     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00099.1     Document Type: Article

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