Aztec drought and the "curse of one rabbit"

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1263-1272

  Therrell, Matthew D ^a   Stahle, David W ^a   Acuna Soto, Rodolfo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HISTORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AZTEC CLIMATE; AZTEC CODICES; AZTEC DROUGHT CHRONOLOGY; FAMINE; SUPERPOSED EPOCH ANALYSIS; TREE RING CHRONOLOGY;

DROUGHT;

EID: 5644249661     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-9-1263     Document Type: Article

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