Significant changes in subseries means and variances in an 8000-year precipitation reconstruction from tree rings in the southwestern USA

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1519-1530

  Jiang, Jianmin ^a,b,c   Gu, Xiangqian ^d   Ju, Jianhua ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; PYRAMID LAKE [NEVADA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547678140     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-25-1519-2007     Document Type: Article

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