North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree-ring latewood

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 954-958

  Griffin, Daniel ^a   Woodhouse, Connie A ^a   Meko, David M ^a   Stahle, David W ^b   Faulstich, Holly L ^a   Carrillo, Carlos ^a   Touchan, Ramzi ^a   Castro, Christopher L ^a   Leavitt, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

season specific climate variability; sub annual paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; PALEOCLIMATE RESEARCH; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; LASERS;

FORESTRY;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; LASERS; METEOROLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84876791102     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50184     Document Type: Article

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