Reconstructed temperature and precipitation on a millennial timescale from tree-rings in the southern Colorado Plateau, U.S.A.

Climatic Change

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 465-487

  Salzer, Matthew W ^a   Kipfmueller, Kurt F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTIONS; TREE-RINGS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23944462591     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-5922-3     Document Type: Article

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