Millennial-scale storminess variability in the northeastern United States during the Holocene epoch

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6909, 2002, Pages 821-824

  Noren, Anders J ^a   Bierman, Paul R ^a   Steig, Eric J ^b   Lini, Andrea ^a   Southon, John ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; LAKES; RAIN; SEDIMENTS; STORMS;

HUMAN ACTIVITIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; STORM;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; FLOODING; HOLOCENE; LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037167873     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01132     Document Type: Article

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