Assessing the risk of persistent drought using climate model simulations and paleoclimate data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7529-7549

  Ault, Toby R ^a   Cole, Julia E ^b,c   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^b,c   Pederson, Gregory T ^d   Meko, David M ^c  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; PALEOCLIMATES;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907855788     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00282.1     Document Type: Article

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