Tree-ring based reconstruction of summer temperatures at the Columbia Icefield, Alberta, Canada, AD 1073-1983

Holocene

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 375-389

  Luckman, B H ^a   Briffa, K R ^b   Jones, P D ^b   Schweingruber, F H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Canadian Rockies; Climate reconstruction; Dendrochronology; Glacier fluctuations; Late Holocene; Summer temperatures; Tree ring densitometry

Indexed keywords

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE (LATE); HOLOCENE CLIMATE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; WARMING;

ALBERTA; CANADA; COLUMBIA ICEFIELD;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII;

EID: 0031434921     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369700700401     Document Type: Article

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