Monitoring playa lake inundation in the western United States: Modern analogues to late-Holocene lake level change

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-58

  Scuderi, Louis A ^a   Laudadio, Christine K ^a   Fawcett, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Landsat; MODIS; Playas; Principal components; Remote sensing; Semi arid; Western North America

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LANDSAT; LIMNOLOGY; MONSOON; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLAYA; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID REGION; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; WATER LEVEL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70849101963     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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