Essays about: "PDSI"

Found 1 essay containing the word PDSI.

  1. 1. Climate – Tree-Growth Relationships in Central Sweden : An Evaluation of the Palmer Drought Severity Index as a Tool for Reconstructing Moisture Variability

    University essay from Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi (INK)

    Author : Inga Labuhn; [2009]
    Keywords : dendroclimatology; PDSI; drought; precipitation; reconstruction; tree rings; Sweden;

    Abstract : A tree-ring width chronology from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) was constructed from a xeric site in Stockholm to investigate the relationships between climate and tree growth and to reconstruct past moisture variability. The measure of moisture conditions employed here is a self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). READ MORE