Decadal and century-long changes in the reconstruction of erosive rainfall anomalies in a Mediterranean fluvial basin

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2078-2093

  Diodato, N ^a   Ceccarelli, M ^b   Bellocchi, G ^a  

^a GTOS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calore River Basin; Climate change; Documentary sources; Erosive rainfall anomalies; Weather index

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RESTORATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; THUNDERSTORMS; WATERSHEDS;

19TH CENTURIES; ANNUAL PRECIPITATIONS; CALORE RIVER BASIN; CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; CLIMATE HISTORY; DOCUMENTARY SOURCES; EROSIVE RAINFALL ANOMALIES; EROSIVITY; FLUVIAL BASINS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGHER TIME RESOLUTIONS; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; INTERDECADAL VARIATIONS; LITTLE ICE AGES; NATURAL VARIABILITIES; RAIN EVENTS; RAINFALL EXTREMES; REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATIONS; SEASONAL CHANGES; WEATHER ANOMALIES; WEATHER INDEX;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSIVITY; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER BASIN; WARMING;

CALORE BASIN; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 63049083559     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1656     Document Type: Article

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