Yadav, Ram R. ; Misra, Krishna G. ; Yadava, Akhilesh K. ; Kotlia, Bahadur S. ; Misra, Sandhya (2015) Tree-ring footprints of drought variability in last ∼300 years over Kumaun Himalaya, India and its relationship with crop productivity Quaternary Science Reviews, 117 . pp. 113-123. ISSN 0277-3791
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.003
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Abstract
We reconstructed Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), a metric of drought, using tree-ring width chronologies of Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara (Roxb.) G. Don) prepared from two ecologically homogeneous settings in the Kumaun Himalaya, India. The reconstruction employing first principal component of the two site chronologies in linear regression model helped in extending 7-month SPI of May (SPI7-May) back to 1720 CE. The calibration model capturing 60% of variance in the observed SPI series (1902–1967) is the strongest so far from the Indian region.
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