Rainfall and tree growth in the Great Basin

by Ernst Antevs

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Published 1938 by Carnegie Institution of Washington and the American Geographical Society of New York in [Washington, D.C.] .
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Places:

• Great Basin.
Subjects:

• Rain and rainfall -- Great Basin.,
• Trees -- Great Basin.,
• Growth (Plants)

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Edition Notes

Statement	by Ernst Antevs ...
Series	Carnegie Institution of Washington publication, no. 469, American Geographical Society. Special publication, no. 21
Contributions	Wright, John Kirtland, 1891-1969, ed.
Classifications
LC Classifications	QC925.1 .U35
The Physical Object
Pagination	4 p. l., 97 p.
Number of Pages	97
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL6367343M
LC Control Number	38007291
OCLC/WorldCa	2027475

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As you can see from the map to the right, the tropical rainforests are, indeed, located in the tropics, a band around the equator from ° N (the Tropic of Cancer) to ° S (the Tropic of Capricorn) (red lines on map, right). Because the Earth tilts degrees on its axis as it travels around the sun, at some point in the year (the solstices, June 22nd in the north, December 22nd in. A regional growth curve with site-specific quantiles of hourly maximum rainfall is also developed. The extracting method was developed using four hourly and daily recording stations in the basin. Regionalization was carried out by clustering analysis with an input of latitude, longitude, elevation, and mean annual rainfall. Within the Great Basin during this time, both sustained periods occurred of relatively high effective moisture (such as those associated with higher-than-historical lake levels in western Nevada from ~ to ~ cal ka and ~ to ~ cal ka; Adams, ), as well as major periods of drought (such as those identified by Mensing et al.

For Eastern North America, this has been a great year to be a tree. Temperatures were mild to moderate for most of the growing season, soil moisture was adequate to above [ ] All text copyright , Tom Kimmerer unless otherwise credited. Tree-ring chronologies were developed from single-leaf pinyon trees in the Great Basin of North America (Biondi et al. ) and calibrated against Parameter-Elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) data (Daly et al. ) to extend precipitation records. The study had mainly a hydrologic focus, with the objective to augment. and vines. In his book "Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Park Naturalist Arthur Stupka lists species. Also, a small number of introduced species have become well established and are beginning to call this area their home; often causing serious problems to File Size: KB.