1989
DOI: 10.2307/3673516
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Frost and Drought through Time and Space, Part II: The Written, Oral, and Proxy Records and Their Meaning

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“…[], Allen [] and Allen et al . []. Nicholls [] used available data from a relatively small number of stations and described the relationship between rainfall and the strength of the Walker circulation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 71%
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“…[], Allen [] and Allen et al . []. Nicholls [] used available data from a relatively small number of stations and described the relationship between rainfall and the strength of the Walker circulation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 71%
“…Allen et al . [] subsequently analyzed a longer data set and noted that that the links between PNG rainfall and ENSO indices were not particularly robust. More recently, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO [] describe the general nature of ENSO impacts on countries throughout the western tropical Pacific region and noted that Port Moresby tends to experience below average November to April rainfall during El Niño events.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Allen et al 1989, Leighton 1984, Nicholls 1993). In Figure 3 the timing of Sabah droughts is compared with the chronologies of two indices: moderate and strong/very strong 'regional El Nino' events (Quinn 1992) and warm ENSO events (Diaz & Kiladis 1992).…”
Section: Comparisons the Longer Term And Links With Ensomentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Earthquake and famine, drought and flood, large-scale wars, and pig and human epidemics were all regarded as expressions of the decline of the cosmos for which the appropriate response was the performance of earth rituals. As far as it is possible to reconstruct the chronology of these events, the last major performances of earth rituals on a regional scale appear to have occurred during the massive famines of 1935 and 1942 (Allen, Brookfield, and Byron 1989). The last performance of an earth spell ritual probably took place at the Tuandaga ritual site during the 1972 frosts that devastated crops in high-altitude settlements across the New Guinea Highlands.…”
Section: Regional Ritual and World Renewalmentioning
confidence: 97%