Time series analyses of tree ring chronologies from Pacific North America: Evidence for sub-century climate oscillations

Chemical Geology

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 339-363

  Kadonaga, Lisa K ^a   Podlaha, Olaf ^b   Whiticar, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate oscillations; Dendrochronology; El Ni o; Pacific basin; Pacific Interdecadal Oscillation; Power spectra; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034053374     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00094-7     Document Type: Article

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