Tree-ring inferred annual mean temperature variations on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau during the last millennium and their relationships with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 627-640

  Wang, Jianglin ^a   Yang, Bao ^a,b   Qin, Chun ^a   Kang, Shuyuan ^a   He, Minhui ^a   Wang, Zhangyong ^a  

^a Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AMO; Last millennium; Temperature reconstruction; Tibetan Plateau; Tree ring width

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREE RING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

JUNIPERUS;

EID: 84905095465     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1802-0     Document Type: Article

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