1,500 year quantitative reconstruction of winter precipitation in the Pacific Northwest

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 11619-11623

  Steinman, Byron A ^a,b   Abbott, Mark B ^a   Mann, Michael E ^b   Stansell, Nathan D ^c   Finney, Bruce P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American West; Lake modeling; Oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; DESERT; LAKE SEDIMENT; LITTLE ICE AGE; OSCILLATION; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMIDITY; LAKES; LINEAR MODELS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84863938237     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201083109     Document Type: Article

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