14. Martin-Philippe Girardin
Canadian Forest Service
Greg Pederson
United States Geological Survey
Erik Nielsen
Manitoba Geological Survey
Emma Watson
Environment Canada
Glen MacDonald
UCLA
David Sauchyn
University of Regina
Jacques Tardif
University of Winnipeg
59. characteristics of Prairie tree rings
Primarily tuned to summer drought
Exhibit low spatial coherence
Have modest connections to remote
forcings
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✔
✔
60. Drought severity over the Northern Plains
during 1932 – 1939 was likely triggered
instead by random atmospheric variability.”
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Hoerling et al., Geophysical Research Le ers, 2009