A long-term context (931-2005 C.E.) for rapid warming over Central Asia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 121, Issue , 2015, Pages 89-97

  Davi, N K ^a,b   D'Arrigo, R ^a   Jacoby, G C ^a   Cook, E R ^a   Anchukaitis, K ^c   Nachin, B ^d   Rao, M P ^a,e   Leland, C ^a,e  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Science Columbia University in the City of New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Global warming; Mongolia; Paleoclimate; Reconstruction; Temperature; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; MEDIEVAL CLIMATE ANOMALY (MCA); MONGOLIA; PALEOCLIMATES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBFOSSIL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREE RING; WOOD;

ASIA; CLIMATES; DROUGHT;

CENTRAL ASIA; MONGOLIA;

EID: 84930677167     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.020     Document Type: Article

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