Isoscapes of tree-ring carbon-13 perform like meteorological networks in predicting regional precipitation patterns

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 352-360

  Del Castillo, Jorge ^a   Aguilera, Mònica ^a   Voltas, Jordi ^a   Ferrio, Juan Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

climate; Mediterranean; rainfall; seasonality; spatial modeling; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOCARBON DATING; RESOLUTION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE RING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84880159401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20036     Document Type: Article

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