Multi‐century tree‐ring precipitation record reveals increasing frequency of extreme dry events in the upper Blue Nile River catchment

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2017-12-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/gcb.13809PMID 28712116
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