Tree-ring reconstructed winter precipitation and tropical teleconnections in Durango, Mexico

Climatic Change

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 369-388

  Cleaveland, Malcolm K ^a   Stahle, David W ^a   Therrell, Matthew D ^a   Villanueva Diaz, José ^b   Burns, Barney T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^c Native Seeds/SEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

WINTER PRECIPITATION;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TELECONNECTION; TREE RING; WINTER;

MEXICO;

ABIES; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 0041859342     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024835630188     Document Type: Article

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