Multi-century tree-ring based reconstruction of the Neuquén River streamflow, northern Patagonia, Argentina

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 815-829

  Mundo, I A ^a,b   Masiokas, M H ^a   Villalba, R ^a   Morales, M S ^a   Neukom, R ^c   Le Quesne, C ^d   Urrutia, R B ^d,e   Lara, A ^d  

^a INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS Y FORESTALES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CHRONOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; EVERGREEN TREE; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; PALEOCLIMATE; POWER GENERATION; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STREAMFLOW; TREE RING;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA;

ARAUCARIA ARAUCANA; AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS;

EID: 84860259865     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-815-2012     Document Type: Article

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