Rocky Mountain hydroclimate: Holocene variability and the role of insolation, ENSO, and the North American Monsoon

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 92-93, Issue , 2012, Pages 198-208

  Anderson, Lesleigh ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine; Calcite; Colorado; Isotopes; Lakes; Oxygen; Paleoclimate; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

ALPINE; COLORADO; HIGH ELEVATION; HOLOCENES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MOISTURE DEFICIT; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SCALE PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SEASONALITY; SEMI-ARID REGION; SNOWPACK; SOLAR INSOLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WATER DEMAND; WATER STORAGE;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CALCITE; DYNAMICS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; SNOW;

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CALCITE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT STRESS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; MONSOON; MOUNTAIN REGION; NONLINEARITY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SEMIARID REGION; SNOWPACK; WATER DEMAND;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862274529     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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