This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The western United States is characterized by complex seasonal precipitation regimes due to the hierarchy of climatic controls that operate at ...

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 33, No. 2, Phytoplankton Time Series in Estuaries and Coastal Ecosystems (MARCH 2010), pp. 541-553 (13 pages) The extraction of climatic signals from time series of ...

Stalagmites and stalactites can provide clues to past rainfall, but only in cool climates. The oxygen isotope composition (δ 18 O) of cave drip water deposits reflects historical freshwater input, ...