Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Stahle, D W ^a   Diaz, J Villanueva ^b   Burnette, D J ^a   Paredes, J Cerano ^b   Heim Jr , R R ^c   Fye, F K ^a   Soto, R Acuna ^d   Therrell, M D ^e   Cleaveland, M K ^a   Stahle, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^c NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SOIL MOISTURE;

CROP YIELD; CULTURAL CHANGES; DROUGHT INDICES; ME-XICO; MESOAMERICA; MOISTURE BALANCE; PALEOCLIMATIC RECORD; TAXODIUM; TERMINAL CLASSIC DROUGHTS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

DROUGHT;

CLASSIC PERIOD; CONIFEROUS TREE; CROP YIELD; CULTURAL CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPELEOTHEM; TREE RING;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; QUERETARO;

TAXODIUM MUCRONATUM;

EID: 79952408986     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046472     Document Type: Article

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