Hydroclimate of the northeastern United States is highly sensitive to solar forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Nichols, Jonathan E ^a,b,c   Huang, Yongsong ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES;

DRIVING MECHANISM; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HUMAN SOCIETY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; MOISTURE BALANCE; PALEOCLIMATES; PEATLAND; SOLAR FORCING; SOLAR MINIMA; SOLAR VARIABILITY; STRATEGIC LOCATIONS; TIME-SCALES; WET CONDITIONS;

HYDROGEN;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BIOMARKER; CLIMATE FORCING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAUNDER MINIMUM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; SOLAR RADIATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863229310     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050720     Document Type: Article

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