Multi-centennial summer and winter precipitation variability in southern South America

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Neukom, R ^a   Luterbacher, J ^b   Villalba, R ^c   Kttel, M ^a,d   Frank, D ^a,e   Jones, P D ^f   Grosjean, M ^a   Esper, J ^g   Lopez, L ^c   Wanner, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REPAIR;

20TH CENTURY; ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; COMPLEX FORMS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; LARGE PARTS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; PREDICTOR NETWORK; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL CHANGES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77955290584     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043680     Document Type: Article

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