Millennial precipitation reconstruction for the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, reveals changingb drought signal

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 896-906

  Touchan, Ramzi ^a   Woodhouse, Connie A ^a   Meko, David M ^a   Allen, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrohydrology; Drought; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CALIBRATION AND VERIFICATION; CLIMATE RECORD; DENDROHYDROLOGY; DROUGHT PLANNING; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; HUMAN POPULATION; HYDROCLIMATIC; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE; MODEL-BASED; NEW MEXICO; NORTH PACIFIC; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; ON CURRENTS; PINUS PONDEROSA; POLICY MAKERS; PONDEROSA PINES; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION MODEL; RESOURCE MANAGERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPLIT-SAMPLE; SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TREE RING RECORDS; WET AND DRY; WHITE PINE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MODEL VALIDATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CLIMATES; CONSTRUCTION; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOUNTAINS; NEW MEXICO; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

JEMEZ MOUNTAINS; NEW MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

ABIES; PINUS PONDEROSA; PINUS STROBIFORMIS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 79954576672     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2117     Document Type: Article

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