Historical perspective of drought response in central-southern Italy

Climate Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-200

  Diodato, Nazzareno ^a   Bellocchi, Gianni ^a,b  

^a Met European Research Observatory   (Italy)

^b French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

Author keywords

Central southern Italy; Documentary data; Drought; Little Ice Age

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; CENTRAL-SOUTHERN ITALY; CLIMATE SIGNALS; CORRELATION PATTERNS; DOCUMENTARY DATA; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; DROUGHT RESPONSE; DRY AND WET CONDITIONS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; INTERMEDIATE STATE; LITTLE ICE AGE; LIVING CONDITIONS; SUNSPOT CYCLES; WAVELET POWER SPECTRA; WEATHER INDEX; WET-DRY CYCLE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE;

DROUGHT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; DROUGHT STRESS; LITTLE ICE AGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 81355150929     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01020     Document Type: Article

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