Bridging past and future climate across paleoclimatic reconstructions, observations and models: A hydroclimate case study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3212-3231

  Smerdon, Jason E ^a   Cook, Benjamin I ^a,b   Cook, Edward R ^a   Seager, Richard ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; REPAIR; SOILS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PDSI RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; PALEOCLIMATE; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TREE RING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84961291696     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00417.1     Document Type: Article

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