ENSO signature in botanical proxy time series extends terrestrial El Niño record into the (sub)tropics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 5776-5781

  Donders, Timme H ^a   Punyasena, Surangi W ^b   De Boer, Hugo J ^a   Wagner Cremer, Friederike ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; epidermal cell density; Florida; maximum likelihood; palaeoprecipitation; pollen

Indexed keywords

ENSO; EPIDERMAL CELLS; FLORIDA; PALAEOPRECIPITATION; POLLEN;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALEOBOTANY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887282624     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058038     Document Type: Article

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