Climatic Reconstructions Using Tree-Ring Data from Tropical and Temperate Regions of India - A Review

There are several reports which indicate that the c1imate over the Himalayan region is linked both with the monsoon variation on the Indian subcontinent and in the whole of South-East Asia as well as with the El-Niño/Southem Oscillation. To understand the behaviour ofthese c1imatic phenomena we need long-term high-resolution c1imatic records which are in generallacking in this part of the globe. Tree-ring studies have therefore been taken up in the tropical and Himalayan region in India to develop millennium-long c1imatic reconstructions.