A new method to reconstruct low-frequency climatic variability from documentary sources: Application to winter rainfall series in Andalusia (Southern Spain) from 1501 to 2000

Climatic Change

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 471-487

  Rodrigo, F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LOW-FREQUENCY CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; WINTER RAINFALL SERIES;

RAIN;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; WINTER;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 41049092351     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9312-x     Document Type: Article

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