Tree-ring based May-July temperature reconstruction since AD 1630 on the western Loess Plateau, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Song, Huiming ^a,c   Liu, Yu ^a,b   Li, Qiang ^a   Gao, Na ^d   Ma, Yongyong ^a,c   Zhang, Yanhua ^a,c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PINE; PINUS TABULAEFORMIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE RELATED PHENOMENA; VARIANCE; CHRONOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

CHINA; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PINUS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84898607842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093504     Document Type: Article

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