Millennium tree-ring reconstruction of drought variability in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northwest China

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 1761-1770

  Gou, Xiaohua ^a,b   Deng, Yang ^a   Gao, Linlin ^a   Chen, Fahu ^a   Cook, Edward ^b   Yang, Meixue ^c   Zhang, Fen ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Drought variability; Eastern Qilian Mountains; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING;

CHINA; QILIAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84943817875     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2431-y     Document Type: Article

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