Northern Hemisphere temperature variability for the past three centuries: Tree-ring and model estimates

Climatic Change

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 663-675

  D'Arrigo, Rosanne ^a   Jacoby, Gordon ^a   Free, Melissa ^b   Robock, Alan ^b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE; TREE RING;

EID: 0032855366     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005471918574     Document Type: Article

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