The North American monsoon in the U.S. Southwest: Potential for investigation with tree-ring carbon isotopes

Quaternary International

Volumn 235, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 101-107

  Leavitt, Steven W ^a   Woodhouse, Connie A ^a   Castro, Christopher L ^a   Wright, W Edward ^b   Meko, David M ^a   Touchan, Ramzi ^a   Griffin, Daniel ^a   Ciancarelli, Brittany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DROUGHT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREE RING;

UNITED STATES;

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 79952185359     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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