Patterns and sources of multidecadal oscillations in drought-sensitive tree-ring records from the central and southern Rocky Mountains

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Gray, Stephen J ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^b   Fastie, Christopher L ^c   Jackson, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; Drought; Multi decadal variability; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MOISTURE; DROUGHT; ICE; LANDFORMS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY BEHAVIOR; MOISTURE VARIATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SUBSTANTIAL REORGANIZATION; TREE RINGS;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY;

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0041689821     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016154     Document Type: Article

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