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Title: El Nino: Historical and paleoclimatic aspects of the southern oscillation

Book ·
OSTI ID:6726772

This book, including 22 papers by well-known authorities, presents a balanced picture of the possible types of information that can be bound about the past occurrence of El Nino. Topics presented include the following: oxygen-isotope analyses of ice cores in the Andes; tree-ring growth; trace mineral concentrations in annual layers of coral reefs; Nile River flood records back 13 centuries. The book is accessible to outsiders whose interests require a knowledge of El Nino and its historical manifestations.

OSTI ID:
6726772
Resource Relation:
Other Information: From review by Gerald R. North, Texas A M Univ., in American Scientist, Vol. 82, No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1994)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English