Spatiotemporal drought variability in northwestern Africa over the last nine centuries

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 237-252

  Touchan, Ramzi ^a   Anchukaitis, Kevin J ^b   Meko, David M ^a   Sabir, Mohamed ^c   Attalah, Said ^d   Aloui, Ali ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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

^c National School of Forest Engineering   (Morocco)

^d KASDI MERBAH UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^e Sylvo Pastoral Institute of Tabarka   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Climate field reconstruction; Drought; Mediterranean; Northwestern Africa; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

ALGERIA; MOROCCO; TUNISIA;

EID: 79959792629     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0804-4     Document Type: Article

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