3800 Years of quantitative precipitation reconstruction from the Northwest Yucatan Peninsula.

Precipitation over the last 3800 years has been reconstructed using modern pollen calibration and precipitation data. A transfer function was then performed via the linear method of partial least squares. By calculating precipitation anomalies, it is estimated that precipitation deficits were greate...

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Main Authors: Alicia Carrillo-Bastos, Gerald A Islebe, Nuria Torrescano-Valle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3877294?pdf=render