A millennial multi-proxy reconstruction of summer PDSI for Southern South America

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 957-974

  Boucher, E ^a   Guiot, J ^a   Chapron, E ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DROUGHT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

PATAGONIA;

EID: 80052337436     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-957-2011     Document Type: Article

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