Widespread drought episodes in the western Great Lakes region during the past 2000 years: Geographic extent and potential mechanisms

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 415-427

  Booth, Robert K ^a,c   Notaro, Michael ^a   Jackson, Stephen T ^b   Kutzbach, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Great Lakes region; Medieval Warm Period; North America; Peatlands; Testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF); GREAT LAKES REGION; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PEATLANDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SSTS); TESTATE AMOEBAE;

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

LAKES;

DROUGHT; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 32344437794     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.12.028     Document Type: Article

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