A 9170-year record of decadal-to-multi-centennial scale pluvial episodes from the coastal Southwest United States: A role for atmospheric rivers?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-65

  Kirby, Matthew E ^a   Zimmerman, Susan R H ^b   Patterson, William P ^c   Rivera, Jose J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric rivers; California; Holocene; Lake; Pluvial; Sediment

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE FORCINGS; COHERENT SIGNALS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENES; MULTI PROXIES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; PLUVIAL; PLUVIALS; PROXY DATA; SIERRA NEVADA; SOURCE REGION; TIME-SCALES; WESTERN UNITED STATES; WINTER STORMS;

LANDFORMS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STORMS;

LAKES;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CARBONATE; COASTAL ZONE; DECADAL VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLAYA; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

BEAR LAKE; CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; MOJAVE RIVER; SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; TULARE LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861861154     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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