Climatic trends from isotopic records of tree rings: The past 100-200 years

Climatic Change

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 551-562

  Feng, Xiahong ^a,b   Epstein, Samuel ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; CLIMATIC VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE; TREE CELLULOSE; TREE RING;

EID: 0030432401     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00141704     Document Type: Article

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