Three centuries of shifting hydroclimatic regimes across the Mongolian Breadbasket

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 178-179, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-20

  Pederson, N ^a   Leland, C ^a   Nachin, B ^b   Hessl, A E ^c   Bell, A R ^a,d   Martin Benito, D ^a   Saladyga, T ^e   Suran, B ^f   Brown, P M ^f   Davi, N K ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Business Administration and Division of Business and Economics   (United States)

^f Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate variability; Mongolia; Regime shifts; Tree rings; Water resources

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; TIMESCALE; TREE RING; VULNERABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

MONGOLIA; SELENGA RIVER;

EID: 84880334072     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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