El Niño-Southern Oscillation and precipitation history in Baja California: Reconstruction using tree ring records

Geofisica Internacional

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351-362

  Martijena, Nora E ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baja California; Climate; El Ni o; Precipitation; Southern Oscillation; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING;

BAJA CALIFORNIA STATE; MEXICO;

PINUS COULTERI; PINUS JEFFREYI; PINUS QUADRIFOLIA;

EID: 0142092346     PISSN: 00167169     EISSN: 2954436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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