A modern analogue of western United States summer palaeoclimate at 6000 years before present

Holocene

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 541-545

  Mock, Cary J ^a   Brunelle Daines, Andrea R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

500 mb heights; August 1955; Modern analogue; Monsoon; Proxy data; Subtropical ridge; Summer palaeoclimate; Synoptic climatology; Western United States

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PALEOECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; SIMULATION MODEL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SUMMER;

(WEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032863092     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968399668724603     Document Type: Article

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