An extended network of documentary data from South America and its potential for quantitative precipitation reconstructions back to the 16th century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Neukom, Raphael ^d   Prieto, María Del Rosario ^c   Moyano, Rodolfo ^c   Luterbacher, Jürg ^b   Pfister, Christian ^d   Villalba, Ricardo ^c   Jones, Philip D ^a   Wanner, Heinz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; ARGENTINA; CENTRAL ANDES; EXTENDED NETWORKS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INSTRUMENTAL DATA; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SNOW DEPTHS; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL APPROACH; WET AND DRY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 68749095784     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038351     Document Type: Review

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