A 323-year long reconstruction of drought for SW Romania based on black pine (Pinus Nigra) tree-ring widths

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 703-714

  Levanič, Tom ^a   Popa, Ionel ^b   Poljanšek, Simon ^a   Nechita, Constantin ^b,c  

^a SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b FOREST RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Romania)

^c STEFAN CEL MARE UNIVERSITY OF SUCEAVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroclimatology; Domogled National Park; Standardised precipitation index; Summer drought reconstruction

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PINE; SEASON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PINUS; RAIN; SEASONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TURKEY;

EID: 84881596848     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-012-0596-9     Document Type: Article

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