May-June precipitation reconstruction of southwestern Anatolia, Turkey during the last 900 years from tree rings

Quaternary Research

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 196-202

  Touchan, Ramzi ^a   Akkemik, Ünal ^b   Hughes, Malcolm K ^a   Erkan, Nesat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Southwest Anatolia Forest Research Institute   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronology; Reconstruction; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HUMIDITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS EXCELSA;

EID: 34548046470     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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