Relative humidity history on the Batang-Litang Plateau of western China since 1755 reconstructed from tree-ring δ18O and δD

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2639-2654

  An, Wenling ^a,c,d   Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Leavitt, Steven W ^b   Xu, Guobao ^a,c   Zeng, Xiaomin ^a,c   Wang, Wenzhi ^a,c   Qin, Dahe ^a   Ren, Jiawen ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulations; Batang Litang Plateau; Dendrochronology; Relative humidity; Tree rings; D

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HYDROGEN; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLATEAU; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER; TIME SERIES; TREE RING;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ABIES GEORGEI;

EID: 84899903869     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1937-z     Document Type: Article

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