Moisture variations over the past millennium characterized by Qaidam Basin tree-ring δ18O

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 3956-3961

  Wang, WenZhi ^a,b   Liu, XiaoHong ^a,b   Xu, GuoBao ^a,b   Shao, XueMei ^c   Qin, DaHe ^a   Sun, WeiZhen ^a   An, WenLing ^a,b   Zeng, XiaoMin ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

little ice age; medieval climate anomaly; moisture variation; Qaidam Basin; tree ring 18O

Indexed keywords

JUNIPERUS; SABINA PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 84887417861     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5913-0     Document Type: Article

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