Early-summer temperature variations over the past 563 yr inferred from tree rings in the Shaluli Mountains, southeastern Tibet Plateau

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 513-519

  Deng, Yang ^a   Gou, Xiaohua ^a   Gao, Linlin ^a   Yang, Tao ^a   Yang, Meixue ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Southeastern Tibet Plateau; Temperature reconstruction; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SPATIAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TIBET PLATEAU; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

FORESTRY;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TREE RING;

ENERGY PRODUCTION; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; SUN LIGHT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SHALULI MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

ABIES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84901840088     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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