Standardized precipitation index reconstructed from Turkish tree-ring widths

Climatic Change

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 339-353

  Touchan, Ramzi ^a   Funkhouser, Gary ^a   Hughes, Malcolm K ^a   Erkan, Nesat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Southwest Anatolia Forest Research Institute   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; STATISTICS;

SPI RECONSTRUCTION; SPI THRESHOLD; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX (SPI);

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING;

STATISTICS; TREES;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS EXCELSA;

EID: 27644465869     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-5358-9     Document Type: Article

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