Reconstructed drought variability in southeastern Sweden since the 1650s

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2449-2458

  Seftigen, Kristina ^a   Linderholm, Hans W ^a   Drobyshev, Igor ^b,c   Niklasson, Mats ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dendroclimatology; Drought reconstruction; Southeastern Sweden; SPI

Indexed keywords

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; REGIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; SOUTHEASTERN SWEDEN; SPI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

FORESTRY; MOISTURE;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; MOISTURE;

SWEDEN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84883185778     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3592     Document Type: Article

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