Cool- and warm-season precipitation reconstructions over western New Mexico

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3729-3750

  Stahle, David W ^a   Cleaveland, M K ^a   Grissino Mayer, H D ^b   Griffin, R D ^d   Fye, F K ^a   Therrell, M D ^c   Burnette, D J ^a   Meko, D M ^d   Villanueva Diaz, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Instituto Nacional de Investigacioones Forestales Agricolas y Perurarias   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL RING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CROP YIELD; DRY CONDITION; EARLYWOOD; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; GULF OF MEXICO; HEIGHT FIELDS; INSTRUMENTAL PRECIPITATION; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE; LATEWOOD; MOISTURE ADVECTION; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH PACIFIC; O-CONDITIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION DATA; RING WIDTH; SEASON PRECIPITATION; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVERS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPRING PRECIPITATION; SUMMER MONSOON; SURFACE WARMING; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES; WARM SEASONS; WET WINTERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOOD SUPPLY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REPAIR; SNOW; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

FORESTRY;

ADVECTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; EL NINO; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; TREE RING;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; FOOD; FORESTRY; MAINTENANCE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SNOW; SPRINGS;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 67749084566     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2752.1     Document Type: Article

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