Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Cook, Edward R ^a   Seager, Richard ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Briffa, Keith R ^b   Büntgen, Ulf ^c   Frank, David ^c   Krusic, Paul J ^d   Tegel, Willy ^e   Schrier, Gerard Vander ^f   Andreu Hayles, Laia ^a   Baillie, Mike ^g   Baittinger, Claudia ^h   Bleicher, Niels ⁱ   Bonde, Niels ^h   Brown, David ^g   Carrer, Marco ^j   Cooper, Richard ^b   Eùfar, Katarina ^k   DIttmar, Christoph ^l   Esper, Jan ^m   Griggs, Carol ⁿ   Gunnarson, Björn ^o   Günther, Björn ^p   Gutierrez, Emilia ^q   Haneca, Kristof ^r   Helama, Samuli ^s   Herzig, Franz ^t   Heussner, Karl Uwe ^u   Hofmann, Jutta ^v   Janda, Pavel ^w   Kontic, Raymond ^x   Köse, Nesibe ^y   Kyncl, Tomáš ^z   Levaniè, Tom ^aa   Linderholm, Hans ^ab   Manning, Sturt ⁿ   Melvin, Thomas M ^b   Miles, Daniel ^ac   Neuwirth, Burkhard ^ad   Nicolussi, Kurt ^ae   Nola, Paola ^af   Panayotov, Momchil ^ag   Popa, Ionel ^ah   Rothe, Andreas ^ai   Seftigen, Kristina ^ab   Seim, Andrea ^ab   Svarva, Helene ^aj   Svoboda, Miroslav ^w   Thun, Terje ^aj   Timonen, Mauri ^s   Touchan, Ramzi ^ak   Trotsiuk, Volodymyr ^w   Trouet, Valerie ^ak   Walder, Felix ⁱ   Wany, Tomasz ^ak,al   Wilson, Rob ^am   Zang, Christian ^an   more..

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d Navarino Environmental Observatory   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^g QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^h National Museum of Denmark   (Denmark)

ⁱ Office for Urbanism   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^l Environmental Research and Education   (Germany)

^m JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁿ Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^o STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^p DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^r Flanders Heritage Agency   (Belgium)

^s FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^t Bavarian State Department for Cultural Heritage   (Germany)

^u GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^v Jahrringlabor Hofmann   (Germany)

^w CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^x Labor Dendron   (Switzerland)

^y ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^z Moravian Dendro Labor   (Czech Republic)

^aa SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ad DeLaWi TreeRingAnalyses   (Germany)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^af UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY   (Bulgaria)

^ah FOREST RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Romania)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

^aj NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^al NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^am UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^an TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; HISTORICAL ACCOUNT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84992433804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500561     Document Type: Article

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