Moisture dipole over the Tibetan Plateau during the past five and a half centuries

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Qi Bin ^a   Evans, Michael N ^b   Lyu, Lixin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE FORCING; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONSOON; PERSISTENCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; TREE RING; WESTERLY;

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIPOLE; MOISTURE; STRESS; TREE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

JUNIPERUS;

EID: 84939795632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9062     Document Type: Article

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