Snowpack reconstructions incorporating climate in the upper green river basin (Wyoming)

Tree-Ring Research

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-114

  Anderson, Sallyrose ^a   Moser, Cody L ^a   Tootle, Glenn A ^a   Grissino Mayer, Henri D ^b   Timilsena, Janak ^c   Piechota, Thomas ^d  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c IDAHO POWER COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

dendrochronology; snowpack reconstruction; Southern Oscillation; tree rings; Upper Green River Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864648493     PISSN: 15361098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3959/2011-8.1     Document Type: Article

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