Climate variations and the enhanced greenhouse effect

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Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 270-274

  Karlén, Wibjörn ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PALEOCLIMATE; TREELINE;

SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0031820892     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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