Tree-Ring Indices of Rainfall, Temperature, and River Flow (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Schulman, Edmund  (1908-1958)

Publisher: American Meteorological Society (Boston, MA)

Pub Date: 1951

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears.  This 8½ x 11 pamphlet has been folded in half, to fit in a 5 x 8 envelope.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend, extends through entire volume.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Reprinted from the Compendium of Meteorology, 1951.  Dendrochronology.  Climate.  “It appears that specially dry winters and low runoff in the Colorado River Basin, of the severity of ‘dust-bowl year’ 1934, occurred about one in twenty years during the 658 year of ring record (not every twenty years!); instance of two successive years of such critically small runoff, of special importance in the management of the reservoir level at Hoover Dam, seem to have occurred only three times during that record” (Page 1028).   Those who do not remember the past…