Drought variability at the northern fringe of the Asian summer monsoon region over the past millennia

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 845-859

  Yang, Bao ^a   Kang, Shuyuan ^a   Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier ^b   He, Minhui ^a   Zhao, Yan ^c   Qin, Chun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

Author keywords

Drought; Palmer drought severity index; Past climate change; Regional climate dynamics; The Asian summer monsoon; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL PATTERN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIMESCALE; TREE RING;

CHINA; GANSU; HEXI CORRIDOR; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; KARAKORAM; MONGOLIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PAMIRS; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TIEN SHAN; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84905028792     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1962-y     Document Type: Article

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