Drought Science and Indices: Proxy Data Studies

 
 
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Beaudoin, A. B. 2002. On the identification and characterization of drought in postglacial palaeoecological records. Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting. Victoria, BC: Canadian Geomorphology Research Group (CGRG); University of Victoria Tree-Ring Laboratory.

Case, Roslyn A., and Glen M. MacDonald. 1995. A Dendroclimatic reconstruction of annual precipitation on the Western Canadian Prairies since A.D. 1505 from Pinus flexilis James. Quaternary Research 44: 267-75.

Cook, E. R., D. M. Meko, D. W. Stahle, and M. K. Cleaveland . 1999. Drought reconstructions for the continental United States. Journal of Climate 12, no. 4 (Aug): 1145-62.

Ito, E., D. R. Engstrom, and A. J. Smith. 1995. The Calibration of proxy records of lake salinity to instrumental climate records in the northern Great Plains. Proceedings of the 38th Conference of the International Association of Great Lakes Research, East Lansing, Michigan (USA), 28 May-1 June 1995. Ann Arbor, MI: International Association of Great Lakes Research.

Leavitt, Peter R., Brian Cumming, James Rusak, and D. Wang. 2001. Agricultural adaptation to climatic warming: the Role of carbon storage in prairie lakes under drier climates. BIOCAP Research Grant Report.

Leavitt, S. W., and A. Long. 1989. Drought indicated in Carbon-13/Carbon-12 ratios of southwestern tree rings. Water Resources Bulletin 25, no. 2 (Apr): 341-347.

Lemmen, D. S. and R. E. Vance, Editors. 1999. Holocene climate and environmental change in the Palliser Triangle: a Geoscientific context for evaluating the impacts of climate change on the southern Canadian Prairies. [Ottawa, ON]: Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 534.

Liebscher, H. J. 1987. Paleohydrologic studies using proxy data and observations. The Influence of Climate and climate variability on the hydrological regime and water resources: Proceedings of the Vancouver, BC Symposium, August 1987. IAHS.

Linacre, Edward T. 1993. Data-sparse estimation of lake evaporation, using a simplified Penman equation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 6: 237-56.

Nichols, W. D. 1989. Reconstructed drought history, North-Central Great Basin, 1601-1982. Aspects of climate variability in the Pacific and the Western Americas. Geophysical Monograph 55: 61-67. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.

Sauchyn, D. J. 1995. "White Bear Lake Relic Tree Stump Project; Final report to the PFRA." Regina, SK: Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration.

Sauchyn, D. J., and W. R. Skinner. 2001. A Proxy record of drought severity for the southwestern Canadian Plains. Canadian Water Resources Journal 26, no. 2: 253-72.

Sauchyn, David J., Antoine Beriault, and Jennifer Stroich. 2002. A Paleoclimatic context for the drought of 1999-2001 in the northern Great Plains. Geographical Journal : 1-18.

Sauchyn, David J., and Long-Range Weather and Crop Forecasting Working Group. 2001. Drought forecasting using tree ring records. Long-range weather and crop forecasting in North America; Long-Range Weather and Crop Forecasting Working Group Meeting IV, held during the CAG (Canadian Association of Geographers) National Workshop, Regina, Saskatchewan, March 5-6, 2001.

Sauchyn, David J., and Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC). 2001. Understanding future dryland changes from past dynamics. Presentation at: Proceedings of the 2001 Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, May 29, 2001, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Canadian Association of Geographers.

Sauchyn, David J. and Walter R. Skinner. 2001. A Proxy PDSI record for the southwestern Canadian plains. Canadian Water Resources Journal 26, no. 2: 253-72.

Sauchyn, David J., Walter R. Skinner, and Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC). 2001. A 400-Year drought history for the Southwestern Canadian Plains. Presentation at: Climate changes: Proceedings of the 2001 Annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Montreal, May 30 - June 3, 2001. Geoscience Canada; Canadian Association of Geographers.

Skinner, Walter R., K. Heinze, L. A. Vincent, and E. Mekis. 2001. The Palmer Drought Severity Index as calculated from the rehabilitated Canadian historical climate database over the 20th Century. Presentation May 31st at: Climate changes: Proceedings of the 2001 Annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Montreal, May 30 – June 3, 2001. Geoscience Canada; Canadian Association of Geographers.

Stahle, D. W., and M. K. Cleaveland. 1988. Texas drought history reconstructed and analyzed from 1698 to 1980. Journal of Climate 1, no. 1 (Jan): 59-74.

Stockton, C. W. and D. M. Meko. 1983. Drought recurrence in the Great Plains as reconstructed from long-term tree-ring records. Journal of Climatology and Applied Meteorology 22: 17-29.

Szeicz, Julian M. and Glen M. MacDonald. 1995. Dendroclimatic reconstruction of summer temperatures in Northwestern Canada since A.D. 1638 based on age-dependent modelling. Quaternary Research 44, no. 2 (Sept): 257-66.

Vance, R. E., R. W. Mathewes, and J. J. Clague. 1992. 7000-Year record of lake-level change on the Northern Great Plains: a High-resolution proxy of past climate. Geology 20: 879-82.

 
 
 
 
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