The ‘segment length curse’ in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies

The Holocene

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 229-237

  Cook, Edward R ^a   Briffa, Keith R ^b   Meko, David M ^c   Graybill, Donald A ^c   Funkhouser, Gary ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

chronology standardization; dendroclimatology; pal aeoclimatology; Tree rings; segment length curse

Indexed keywords

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PINE; SEGMENT LENGTH CURSE; TREE RING CHRONOLOGY;

EID: 0028974652     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369500500211     Document Type: Article

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