Matthias Winiger

TL;DR: An annually resolved oxygen isotope record from tree-rings is presented, providing a millennial-scale reconstruction of precipitation variability in the high mountains of northern Pakistan, where the climatic signal originates mainly from winter precipitation, and is robust over ecologically different sites.

TL;DR: In this article, a combined approach is presented to assess the vertical spatio-temporal distribution of total annual precipitation in the high mountains of Central and South Asia using in situ measurements of snow depth and water equivalent (10-year time series derived from automatic weather stations at elevations between 1500 and 4700 m a.s.l.).

TL;DR: More than 200 000 ring-width measurements from 384 trees were obtained for 20 individual sites ranging from the lower to upper local timber-lines in the Northwest Karakorum of Pakistan and the Southern Tien Shan of Kirghizia as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented δ 13 C tree ring records from the subalpine vegetation belt of the European Alps (Lotschental, Switzerland) for studies of spatial site comparisons with respect to altitude (upper timberline/valley floor), exposure (N/S), and soil moisture (dry/moist).

TL;DR: In this paper, three hundred and seventy-seven tree-ring width site chronologies including all eight principal forest tree species within Central Europe (5° to 15°E; 43° to 53°N) are expressed as Cropper-values and mapped using a Geographical Information System (here after referred to as GIS).