A multispecies tree ring reconstruction of Potomac River streamflow (950-2001)

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Maxwell, R Stockton ^a   Hessl, Amy E ^a   Cook, Edward R ^b   Pederson, Neil ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLANATORY POWER; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; MULTI-SPECIES; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; MULTIPLE SPECIES; POTOMAC RIVER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; REDUCTION OF ERRORS; RESOURCE MANAGERS; TIME STEP; TREE GROWTH; TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION;

ERROR STATISTICS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

PLANT EXTRACTS;

ARIDITY; CALIBRATION; CHRONOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAMFLOW; TREE RING; WATER RESOURCE;

POTOMAC RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957507548     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010019     Document Type: Article

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