Specific climatic signals recorded in earlywood and latewood δ18O of tree rings in southwestern China

Wenling An; Xiaohong Liu; Steven W. Leavitt; Jiawen Ren; Weizhen Sun; Wenzhi Wang; Yu Wang; Guobao Xu; Tuo Chen; Dahe Qin

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.18703

Specific climatic signals recorded in earlywood and latewood δ18O of tree rings in southwestern China

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 64 (2012): Issue 1

By: Wenling An, Xiaohong Liu, Steven W. Leavitt, Jiawen Ren, Weizhen Sun, Wenzhi Wang, Yu Wang, Guobao Xu, Tuo Chen and Dahe Qin

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Keywords:

tree-ring δ¹⁸O,

earlywood,

latewood,

source water,

atmospheric circulation

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