A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2903-2908

  Yang, Bao ^a   Qin, Chun ^a   Wang, Jianglin ^a   He, Minhui ^a   Melvin, Thomas M ^b   Osborn, Timothy J ^b   Briffa, Keith R ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHRONOLOGY; JUNIPERUS; MOISTURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TREE; TREE GROWTH; TREND STUDY; WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; RAIN; SNOW; TIBET; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84896816431     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319238111     Document Type: Article

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