Three centuries of Slovakian drought dynamics

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 315-329

  Buntgen U ^a   Brazdil R ^b   Frank, D ^a   Esper, J ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Documentary evidence; Drought; Synoptic pattern; Tree ring width

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; DROUGHT; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 77954956508     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0563-2     Document Type: Article

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