Spatiotemporal drought variability in the mediterranean over the last 900 years

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2060-2074

  Cook, Benjamin I ^a,b   Anchukaitis, Kevin J ^b,c   Touchan, Ramzi ^c   Meko, David M ^c   Cook, Edward R ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BLACK SEA; GREECE; LEVANTINE SEA; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84959475877     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023929     Document Type: Article

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