Spatial patterns of eastern Mediterranean climate influence on tree growth

Holocene

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 381-392

  Touchan, Ramzi ^a   Anchukaitis, Kevin J ^b   Shishov, Vladimir V ^c   Sivrikaya, Fatih ^d   Attieh, Jihad ^e   Ketmen, Muzaffer ^f   Stephan, Jean ^g   Mitsopoulos, Ioannis ^h   Christou, Andreas ⁱ   Meko, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^f Forestry Institute   (Turkey)

^g LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^h Global Fire Monitoring Center   (Germany)

ⁱ Department of Forests ^*  (Cyprus)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; correlation analysis; expressed population signal; general circulation models; tree ring

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GROWTH RESPONSE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84896052708     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613518594     Document Type: Article

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