Number of winter precipitation days reconstructed from southwestern tree rings

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2663-2669

  Woodhouse, Connie A ^a,b   Meko, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION; TREE RING ANALYSIS;

USA; USA, (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 0031429169     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2663:NOWPDR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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