Tree-ring based reconstructions of precipitation for the southern Canadian Cordillera

Climatic Change

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 209-241

  Watson, Emma ^a   Luckman, Brian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; RING-WIDTH (RW) CHRONOLOGIES;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DROUGHT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANOMALY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING;

CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; NORTH AMERICA;

ABIES; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 3042753287     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CLIM.0000037487.83308.02     Document Type: Article

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