A Moisture Balance Reconstruction for the Drainage Basin of Albemarle Sound, North Carolina

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1340-1353

  Stahle, Daniel K ^a   Burnette, Dorian J ^b   Stahle, David W ^a  

^a Department of Geosciences   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Albemarle Sound; Climate regime shifts; Dendrochronology; Estuarine water quality; PHDI

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DRAINAGE BASIN; DROUGHT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; FRESHWATER; GROWING SEASON; MOISTURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER QUALITY;

ALBEMARLE SOUND; BLACKWATER RIVER [ESSEX]; ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; NORTH CAROLINA; ROANOKE RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884905794     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9643-y     Document Type: Article

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