Assessing drought variability since 1650 AD from tree-rings on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, southwest China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4057-4065

  Bi, Yingfeng ^a,b,c,d   Xu, Jianchu ^a,b,d,e   Gebrekirstos, Aster ^f   Guo, Liang ^b,c,d   Zhao, Mingxu ^b,c,d   Liang, Eryuan ^a   Yang, Xuefei ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources   (China)

^e WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE   (China)

^f WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Drought; Hengduan Mountains; PDSI; Picea likiangensis; Tree ring width

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; SILICATE MINERALS; SNOW;

DROUGHT CONDITIONS; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PDSI; PICEA LIKIANGENSIS; STANDARD CHRONOLOGIES; TREE-RING WIDTH;

DROUGHT;

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TREE RING;

CHINA; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; YULONG SNOW MOUNTAINS; YUNNAN;

PICEA LIKIANGENSIS;

EID: 84957990016     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4264     Document Type: Article

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