Proceedings of the Southern California Climate Symposium
Subtitle: trends and extremes of the past 2000 years
By: [coordinated by Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ; sponsored by Southern California Edison Company, Environmental Affairs Division] ; edited by Martin R. Rose and Peter E. Wigand.
Contributors: Rose, Martin R.; Wigand, Peter E. 1948-; University of Nevada System. Desert Research Institute.; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.; Southern California Edison Company. Environmental Affairs Division.
Series: Technical reports / Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,; no. 11; Technical reports (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) ;; no. 11.
Publisher: The Museum
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Climatic changes -- California, Southern -- Congresses.; Paleoclimatology -- California, Southern -- Congresses.; Paleoclimatology -- Holocene.; California, Southern -- Climate -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Trends and extremes of the past 2000 years; Southern California climate; Trends and extremes of the last 2000 years
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"25 October 1991"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Southern California climate change : the past 2,000 years -- Martin R. Rose and Peter E. Wigand -- An; title: assessment of the packrat midden method and its application to late prehistoric climatic variability in the deserts of California -- W. Geoffrey Spaulding; title: Climatic extremes of the last 4,000 years as reflected in the pollen records from the southern Sierra Nevada, California -- R. Scott Anderson and Susan J. Smith; title: Paleoclimatic significance of marine varves off southern California -- Carina B. Lange ... [et al.]; title: Historical documentary evidence for southern California precipitation variability -- Joel Michaelsen and Daniel O. Larson; title: Stable isotopes in biotic materials and regional climatic reconstruction -- Peter E. Wigand; title: Review of holocene hillslope, piedmont, and arroyo system evolution in southwest United States : implications to climate-induced landscape modifications in southern California -- Jerry R. Miller and R. Craig Kochel; title: Response of eolian landforms and sediments to climatic change : an overview of their potential for understanding past climates in southern California -- Nicholas Lancaster; title: Climate variation in southern California over the past 2,000 years based on the El Niño / southern oscillation -- William H. Quinn; title: Dendroclimatic reconstructions during the past millennium in the southern Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley, California -- Donald A. Graybill and Gary S. Funkhouser.