Reconstructing dry and wet summers in SE Slovenia from oak tree-ring series

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 607-615

  Čufar, Katarina ^a   De Luis, Martin ^b   Eckstein, Dieter ^c   Kajfež Bogataj, Lučka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

De Martonne aridity index; Dendroclimatology; Precipitation; Quercus spp.; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; OAK; SEASON; SLOVENIA; WEATHER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUERCUS; SEASONS; SLOVENIA; WEATHER;

QUERCUS;

EID: 50249144563     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-008-0153-8     Document Type: Article

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