Possible solar forcing of century-scale drought frequency in the northern Great Plains

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 263-266

  Yu, Zicheng ^a,b   Ito, Emi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE PROXIES; CROSS-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; DROUGHT PERIODS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS; PHASE CORRELATION; SOLAR OSCILLATIONS; SPECTRAL SIMILARITY;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE FORCING; DROUGHT; QUATERNARY; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879885625     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0263:PSFOCS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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