A millennial summer temperature reconstruction for the eastern tibetan plateau from tree-ring width

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5289-5304

  Wang, Jianglin ^a   Yang, Bao ^a   Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier ^b  

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

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; REPAIR;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

FORESTRY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREE RING;

CLIMATES; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84942062225     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00738.1     Document Type: Article

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