Historical perspective on the dust bowl drought in the central United States

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 479-494

  Burnette, Dorian J ^a   Stahle, David W ^b  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; MOISTURE;

DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; DUST; GROWING SEASON; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872655434     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0525-2     Document Type: Article

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