Long-Duration Drought Variability and Impacts on Ecosystem Services: A Case Study from Glacier National Park, Montana
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Instrumental climate records suggest that summer precipitation and winter snowpack in Glacier National Park (Glacier NP), Montana, vary significantly over decadal to multidecadal time scales. Because instrumental records for the region are limited to the twentieth century, knowledge * Corresponding author address: Gregory T. Pederson, Big Sky Institute, Montana State University, 106 AJM Johnson Hall, Bozeman, MT 59717. E-mail address: [email protected] Earth Interactions • Volume 10 (2006) • Paper No. 4 • Page 1
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