Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long‐term palaeoclimate context

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Quaternary Science

• Publication date

  2010-01-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/JQS.1303
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