Tree-ring based reconstructions of northern Patagonia precipitation since AD 1600

Holocene

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 659-674

  Villalba, Ricardo ^a,b   Cook, Edward R ^a   Jacoby, Gordon C ^a   D'Arrigo, Rosanne D ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^c   Jones, Philip D ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austrocedrus chilensis; Dendroclimatology; El Nino Southern Oscillation; ENSO; Northern Patagonia; Precipitation reconstructions; Precipitation variability; Quasi Biennial Oscillation; Synoptic patterns; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS;

EID: 0031793666     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968398669095576     Document Type: Article

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