A 449 year warm season temperature reconstruction in the southeastern Tibetan plateau and its relation to solar activity

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 11,578-11,592

  Duan, Jianping ^a   Zhang, Qi Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 85018214744     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022422     Document Type: Article

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