A six hundred-year annual minimum temperature history for the central Tibetan Plateau derived from tree-ring width series

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 641-655

  He, Minhui ^a   Yang, Bao ^a   Datsenko, Nina M ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climate of the past; Temperature variation; Tibetan Plateau; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREE RING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS TIBETICA;

EID: 84905119501     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1882-x     Document Type: Article

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