A new model for quantifying climate episodes

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1253-1264

  Biondi, Franco ^a   Kozubowski, Tomasz J ^a   Panorska, Anna K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Drought; Great Basin; Palaeoclimatology; Sierra Nevada; Stochastic hydrology; Tree rings; Western juniper

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIVARIATE MODELS; CLIMATIC EPISODES; SCIENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 23044466202     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1186     Document Type: Article

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