Solar-Terrestrial Signal Record in Tree Ring Width Time Series from Brazil

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 169, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2181-2191

  Rigozo, Nivaor Rodolfo ^a   Lisi, Cláudio Sergio ^b   Filho, Mário Tomazello ^c   Prestes, Alan ^d   Nordemann, Daniel Jean Roger ^a   de Echer, Mariza Pereira Souza ^a   Echer, Ezequiel ^a   da Silva, Heitor Evangelista ^e   Rigozo, Valderez F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

sun climate relationship; time series; Tree ring width; wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

11-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE; CROSS-WAVELET ANALYSIS; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SECOND HARMONICS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR CYCLE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; SUN-CLIMATE RELATIONSHIP; SUNSPOT NUMBER; TIME INTERVAL; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING WIDTH; X-TREES;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; TIME SERIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

EL NINO; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SOLAR CYCLE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUNSPOT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREE RING; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; CLIMATES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RINGS; SUN LIGHT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREES;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; HUMAITA; PASSO FUNDO; PORTO FERREIRA; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84869791599     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0480-x     Document Type: Article

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