Summer temperatures in eastern Taimyr inferred from a 2427-year late-Holocene tree-ring chronology and earlier floating series

Holocene

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 727-736

  Naurzbaev, Mukhtar M ^a   Vaganov, Eugene A ^a   Sidorova, Olga V ^a   Schweingruber, Fritz H ^b  

^a ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dendroclimatology; Holocene; Larch; Larix gmelinii; Northern Siberia; Subfossil wood; Summer temperature; Taimyr; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TREE RING;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

LARIX; LARIX GMELINII;

EID: 0036853939     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683602hl586rp     Document Type: Article

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