The twentieth-century pluvial in the western United States

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Woodhouse, Connie A ^a   Kunkel, Kenneth E ^b   Easterling, David R ^a   Cook, Edward R ^c  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMAL EFFECTS; GEOPHYSICS;

HEAVY PRECIPITATION; PALEOCLIMATIC DATA; PLUVIALS;

DATA ACQUISITION; EARTH SCIENCES;

DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CLIMATE DATA; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; PALEOCLIMATIC DATA; SPATIAL EXTENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WESTERN UNITED STATES; WET CONDITIONS; WINTER SEASONS;

EID: 21844458745     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022413     Document Type: Article

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