Past Climatic Variations in Nepal Himalaya as Reconstructed using Ring-width Chronologies

Narayan Prasad Gaire1,2, Sanjaya Bhandari2, Uday Kunwar Thapa3, Dinesh Raj Bhuju1,2, Santosh Kumar Shah4, Madan Koirala2, Rupraj Timilsina5 and Marco Carrer6, (1)Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Dendrochronology Lab, Faculty of Science, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal, (2)Central Department of Environmental Science,Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)University of Minnesota, Department of Geography, Environment and Society, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany, Lucknow, India, (5)College of Applied Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)University of Padova, Department of Land and Agro-forest Environments, Padova, Italy