A 426-year drought history for Western Tian Shan, Central Asia, inferred from tree rings and linkages to the North Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific Oceans

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1095-1104

  Chen, Feng ^a,b   Yuan, Yu jiang ^a   Chen, Fa Hu ^b   Wei, Wen shou ^a   Yu, Shu long ^a   Chen, Xiang jun ^c   Fan, Zi ang ^a   Zhang, Rui bo ^a   Zhang, Tong wen ^a   Shang, Hua ming ^a   Qin, Li ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Xinjiang Earthquake Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Palmer Drought Severity Index; PDSI reconstruction; sea surface temperature; tree rings; Western Tian Shan

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT; HOLOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREE RING; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84879824406     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613483614     Document Type: Article

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