Asian monsoon failure and megadrought during the last millennium

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5977, 2010, Pages 486-489

  Cook, Edward R ^a   Anchukaitis, Kevin J ^a   Buckley, Brendan M ^a   D'Arrigo, Rosanne D ^a   Jacoby, Gordon C ^a   Wright, William E ^a,b  

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

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; MONSOON; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 77951550559     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185188     Document Type: Article

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