California State University, Dominguez Hills

The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

The Quantification of Drought: An Evaluation of Drought Indices

Indices for objectively quantifying the severity of meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological forms of drought are discussed. Indices for each drought form are judged accor...

Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

Health in Old Age: How Do Physicians' Ratings and Self-ratings Compare ?

The present study was designed to provide information on the relationship between self-reports of health and physicians' ratings in an aged sample, and to determine how both of ...

An aggregate drought index: Assessing drought severity based on fluctuations in the hydrologic cycle and surface water storage

An aggregate drought index (ADI) has been developed, and evaluated within three diverse climate divisions in California. The ADI comprehensively considers all physical forms of ...

Atmospheric ¹⁴ C/ ¹² C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave

The whole story An accurate, precise record of the carbon-14 ( 14 C) content of the atmosphere is important for developing chronologies in climate change, archaeology, and many ...