Five centuries of Southern Moravian drought variations revealed from living and historic tree rings

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 167-180

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Brázdil, Rudolf ^c   Dobrovolný, Petr ^c   Trnka, Mirek ^d   Kyncl, T ^e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^e Moravian Dendro Labor   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; TREE RING;

BRNO; CZECH REPUBLIC; JIHOMORAVSKY; MORAVIA;

EID: 79960627009     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0381-9     Document Type: Article

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