North Atlantic oscillation control of droughts in north-east Spain: Evaluation since 1600 A.D.

Climatic Change

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 357-379

  Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^a   Cuadrat, José M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHIVES; INSTRUMENTAL PRECIPITATION;

DROUGHT;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EBRO VALLEY; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 36248962232     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9285-9     Document Type: Article

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