A 265-year reconstruction of Lake Erie water levels based on North Pacific tree rings

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Wiles, Gregory C ^a   Krawiec, Anne C ^a,b   D'Arrigo, Kosanne D ^c  

^a 931 College Mall   (United States)

^b Coneco Engineers Scientists and Surveyors ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION PATTERNS; DENDROCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; GREAT LAKES; GULF OF ALASKA; LAKE ERIE; LAKE LEVELS; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL VARIABILITIES; RING-WIDTH; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

RESTORATION; WATER LEVELS;

LAKES;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; TELECONNECTION; TREE RING; WATER LEVEL;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; GULF OF ALASKA; LAKE ERIE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 65649129664     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037164     Document Type: Article

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