A tree-ring-based drought index reconstruction for far-western Mongolia: 1565-2004

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1508-1514

  Davi, N K ^a,c   Jacoby, G C ^a,b   D'Arrigo, R D ^a   Baatarbileg, N ^b   Jinbao, Li ^a   Curtis, A E ^a,d  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Drought; Moisture; Mongolia; Paleoclimate; PDSI; Periodicities; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; MONGOLIA; PALEOCLIMATE; PDSI; PERIODICITIES; TREE-RING;

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; MOISTURE; REPAIR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATIC REGION; DROUGHT; INDEX METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIODICITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING; TREND ANALYSIS;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; MAINTENANCE; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; RINGS; TREES;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 69849098824     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1798     Document Type: Article

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