Late-eighteenth-century precipitation reconstructions from James Madison's Montpelier plantation

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-71

  Druckenbrod, Daniel L ^a   Mann, Michael E ^a   Stahle, David W ^b   Cleveland, Malcolm K ^b   Therrell, Matthew D ^b   Shugart, Herman H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; DATA ACQUISITION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DENDROCLIMACTIC RECONSTRUCTIONS; HABITATION;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0037277781     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-84-1-57     Document Type: Article

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